Hoplites in single combat

[PMBardunias]

Would any of you happen to have information or additional images of this:

https://www.livius.org/pictures/greece/megara/megara-figurine-of-two-hoplites/

[Duncan Head]

Nice find - I had not seen that before.

On the Louvre site it's at http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=6401 but the photo is much the same as the Livius one, and the text doesn't tell you much except that it may not be of local Megaran manufacture.

[PMBardunias]

Nice find - I had not seen that before.

On the Louvre site it's at http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=6401 but the photo is much the same as the Livius one, and the text doesn't tell you much except that it may not be of local Megaran manufacture.

Thanks,

I am surprised that this is not better known. I only saw it by chance.  It is rather unambiguous in showing how the aspis was held in single combat- something that is endlessly debated from images on vases where the artist is constrained to two dimensions. See how well it comports with both Philippine warriors and their very aspis-ish shields and Marozzo's Italian partizan and rotella.