hoplon 1

noundomain: artefact
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a heavy wooden shield used by the infantry in various periods of Ancient Greece.

  • 1.Such shields did not tend to survive the passage of time very well, and only one aspis has survived into modernity with sufficient preservation to allow us to determine the details of its construction.

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