Aspis Construction Method

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They were turned on a lathe, reinforced across the grain on the front with thin wooden laths, and reinforced on the back with leather.

A good place to start would be the Greek name for shield maker, "torneutoluraspidopêgos". It roughly translates as "one who makes lyres and shields by turning".

I am attending a course on reading Greek and asked the tutor for her view on the word τορνευτολυρασπιδοπηγός. Her response was that the τορνευτολυρα and the ασπιδοπηγός elements should be considered disjunctively as in the Liddell & Scott definition 'lyre-turner and shield-maker', in other words that the shield need not necessarily be made by turning. The possibility remains, of course, but the word τορνευτολυρασπιδοπηγός does not prove it.

Precisely! Having spoken with Classics professors specializing in ancient Greek, they say the same thing.