(11-29-2019, 01:33 PM)Michael Kerr Wrote: Saw this on Hixenbaugh Ancient Art page. If it is a coupling sleeve it is a lot longer than the sleeves depicted on artists' impressions.
https://www.hixenbaugh.net/gallery/detai...AWqOQc73bo
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Michael Kerr
And it is a lot longer than the only extant so-called coupler which, if memory serves, was about six inches. I would also ask just which ancient sources describe the sarissa as being constructed of two shafts?
Paralus|Michael Park
Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
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Ἐπὶ τοὺς πατέρας, ὦ κακαὶ κεφαλαί, τοὺς μετὰ Φιλίππου καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὰ ὅλα κατειργασμένους
Wicked men, you are sinning against your fathers, who conquered the whole world under Philip and Alexander!
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