Hoplite Shield Designs

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Just three examples

Plyleidae: Horses backside - pottery fragment in British Museum and Kylix in Hermitage Museum plus marble fragments in Acropoli and Vravrona Museums. Also two coins: one minted in Attika and one minted in Delphi. The coins have on the backside the chariot wheel as appearing on shields in pottery at the Vatican and Karlsruhe Museums. (Paris B.T. II I plate XXXIII 15, E.A. Gardner Catalogue of Greek vases in FWM 1897 Newell N.Y. Category H xiii 1905) Some distinguished members of the clan (Olympic winners) sport the chariot as appearing in 86. 25 Tampa museum of Art.
The clan controled the cult of Artemis (Stefanos Byzantios Ethnika Peri Poleon Akademie und Verlagsanstellung Gratz 1958 section Plyleidae)

Alcmeonidae: Tha majority of the pottery shoing the variations of the triscelon are concentrated in Berlin an Munich and most of them have been excavated by the German Archeological school in Athens from the Faliro Area (Power base of the clan),
Coins in the Hague six collection all minted in Delphoi (T H C London 1890)
Coins in minted in Attica (Seltman Cambridge catalogue, Warren Boston catalogue 1748)
Alkmeon championing the Delphic Oracle in the Kirrean war puts the snake as was his right as “patriarchâ€