Subject: ὁπλίτης heavy infantry hoplite
Culture: Classical Greek
Setting: late Archaic, Persian wars, Aegean 7th-5thc BC
Object: ὅπλον, ἀσπίς shield
* Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World
"Shield Greece Archaic period, about 550-500 B.C. Bronze (over a modern-day wooden core)
The Greek shield (hoplon) was made of wood with bronze attached. The foot soldier (hoplite) would have put his forearm through a large central bronze loop and grasped a leather strap running through small bronze loops." ...
Royal Ontario Museum > Bronze Age Aegean *
"Outer face of Parthenos Shield: Battle of Greeks and Amazons"
* Windlass Steelcrafts #881025
Global Mart *
