Subject: ὁπλίτης heavy infantry hoplite
Culture: Classical Greek
Setting: late Archaic, Persian wars, Aegean 7th-5thc BC
Object: κνημίδες greaves
Royal Ontario Museum > Bronze Age Aegean *
"GREEK-STYLE LEG ARMOUR A pair of bronze greaves, hammered to fit the shape of the leg. A standard piece of armour worn by the Greek foot-soldier (hoplite) Bronze, Italian-Greek colonial, or native Italic 5th-4th century BC." ...
* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World
"Greave (shin guard) for the right leg Italy. Said to have been found near Bologna, Italy Late Archaic period, about 510-480 B.C. Bronze" ...
* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World
"Greave (shin guard) Greece. Said to have been found in Elis, Greece Archaic period, about 650-625 B.C. Bronze" ...
* Deepeeka #AH6140
