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#GREEK HOPLITE SHIELD DESIGNS HOW TO#
Product made by experienced blacksmiths, who really know how to make a good armor. Reliability and comfortable using for years. In options, you may choose another type of metal, finish treatment and decoration for your knight defense.īenefits, which you’ll get, if you buy medieval shield at Steel Mastery: Main photo shows authentic hoplite shield with following options: As long as the shield were used in something like the historical hoplite phalanx the off-side cutout would offer the same protection and opportunity to thrust. There are no clear illustrations of its use, but a protoCorinthian aryballos mentioned earlier shows a 'hoplite', with a hoplite shield. Shield of size 80*70 cm (32*28 inches). You can use this functional battle shield for: It has true cross-grips, put not in the center of shield and held by the left hand, with leather strap that is worn over the left forearm and elbow. Our model of Greek shield hoplon is in size of 80 cm (32 inches) at height and 70 cm (28 inches) in width. It is kept in Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Vatican now.Īncient aspis shields were about 80-100 cm (32-40 inches) in diameter. It is also known as Bomarzo shield, named after the place where it was found in 1830 year. 
Vatican shield is the only one aspis which was survived to this day. Large concave shield was usually made of wood some models had also bronze cover. Together with sword and spear, such shield was an essential part of warrior’s armament. This letter, of course, stands for (Lakedaímn), which was the most common name in antiquity for the Greek polis (i.e., city-state) that included that settlement of Sparta. Hoplite shield (also known as hoplon or aspis) is a type of ancient shield, which was used by Ancient Greek soldiers called hoplites. Gamma Phi Beta (, also known as GPhi or Gamma Phi) is an international college sorority. In popular culture, ancient Spartan hoplites are virtually always portrayed as fighting with shields decorated with the Greek letter lambda ().
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