Onward and Upward - Carthaginian reenacting

[Dan Z]

It certainly has whet my appetite - I am going to have to track that book down! Thanks!

The detail on the shield in that picture in amazing. You can't quite see it in the small pic I posted so here is a larger version:



The detail that caught my eye and made me realize the picture had been rotated was the gorgon face in the center of the shield. The narrowed eyes, flaring nostrils, the fangs, and the tongue sticking out were apparently "must have's" for your fearsome gorgon imagery. I have a stylized version on my Thracian pelta so when I saw the tongue sticking out in the picture I knew what I was looking at right away.

If the armor and shield have been done to the same scale - that is one big shield...

Here is another image I created using existing portions of the carving to come as close as I could to recreating what the shield might have looked like originally:



Impressive even if it might only be what one sculptor thought a Carthaginian shield might have looked like!