Subject: ὁπλίτης heavy infantry hoplite
Culture: Archaic Greek
Setting: Archaic period, Greece 8th-6thcBC
Object: 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." ...
