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A #Pathfinder2e conversion of my older #Pokemon #MagicItems, with a #Slurpuff #shield to keep you moving, & an #Inkay #helmet to turn things upside down!

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NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" is growing, known as "razor blade throat". W.H.O. says it is a variant to monitor, as it is expected to take over soon as #1 strain infecting folks in U.S.A. Link is to COVID wastewater map (pictured), additional resources.
#CovidIsNotOver #SummerSurge #hospitalized #proper #respirator #face #shield #mask #asymptomatic #carrier #razor #blade #cough #COVID = #AirBorne #MaskUp #LongCOVID is #number #one #illness in #children #surpassing #asthma https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-wastewater-surveillance

Screen grab of the NY state COVID wastewater surveillance map. Red and orange bars are circled (indicating high percentages of infections) in the key area, then all the hotspots in NYC/ Long Island which are orange are red are circled. Most of the state only has grey dots, except for the New York City area.

A #Pathfinder2e conversion of my older #Pokemon #MagicItems, with a #Swirlix #shield to make things so sweet!

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Coiled Shields and Helmets

A little bowl like this was all my budget could afford, but its still handy for holding my sewing things!

One weekend in May 2023 I did two things on a weekend which involved spending several hours away from home doing things with people I did not know in 2013 other than the day job (!). When I was passing through downtown Victoria I stopped at a stall run by Journey House Actions, a Rwandan charity. They sell bowls, baskets, and jars of coiled grass ropes laced with dyed sisal fibres. As I worked my way through them, I was struck how much they were like the Turkish shields in Schloss Ambras.

A Turkish target and three Turkish scimitars from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century in the second armoury, Schloss Ambras. Photo by Sean Manning, October 2015.

If you fitted a bowl like this with a handgrip, I think it would make a perfectly fine buckler or target. The bowls on display were up to 40 or 50 cm wide, and can easily be made domed. A hard thrust to the center might pierce it, but that just teaches you to parry with the shield not use it as a barrier (and the attacker’s weapon might get stuck rather than penetrating). A warrior with a little money could easily add a flat plate of steel or bronze over the handgrip for extra protection at the most vulnerable spot.

Archaeologists have found a shield at a West Slavic site of Lenzen Castle in Brandenburg, Germany. It consists of a two-ply wooden board surrounded by a coiled grass rope which is laced through holes in the rim of the wood with plant fibre, perhaps willow bark. (For more information, check my forthcoming article in the Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies).

?Thracians? with coiled shields on the East Stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis care of livius.org under a CC0 1.0 Universal license

(A picture of a guard at Persepolis with a big coiled shield and a hood should go here if I could find it – ed.)

A group of Western European paintings from the 14th and 15th century show poor soldiers with helmets made in this way. The best known are a series on the Passion of Christ by the Master of the Karlsruhe Passion from around the year 1450. Two of these are still in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, accession numbers 14.25.609 and 14.25.608 (although they come from the art market so their history before the Met acquired them in 1913 is unknown). Needless to say, these cheap and low-status helmets are much rarer in collections today than steel helmets.

Detail of “The Disrobing of Christ”, from the Karlsruhe Passion, c. 1440 c/o https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Master_of_the_Karlsruhe_Passion_-_Disrobing_of_Christ.jpeg

My research focuses on wooden shields, because wooden shields seem to have been generally considered the best in Europe (with steel and bronze shields close behind). Wicker, coiled, and all-hide shields fell out of use long before wooden shields. However, coiled or wicker shields were used in the ancient world in Europe and West Asia. Our vision of the ancient world emphasizes the richest tenth of the population because they had almost all the worked stone and metal goods, wrote the literature, and commissioned the art and the spectacular tombs.

Edit: Don’t forget this “Fighting helmet or turban of plantain fibre” from Cameroon, Africa, Object Number 22-2-50/B3597 https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/115474/ Herodotus and possibly some texts from Hatti or Nuzi mention plaited helmets. Ethnographic museums can be good places to look for things that were common in the ancient world but rarely survive in the ground.

Edit: since I drafted this, Dan D’Silva posted about the round shield he made from a wicker charger https://xerxesmillion.blogspot.com/2023/03/making-round-pelta-from-wicker-charger.html Check it out!

Edit: SalahsArchery in Turkey is selling small numbers of replica kalkan shields https://www.etsy.com/shop/SalahsArchery

Edit 2024-05-18: From John Ma: a 6th century BCE shipwreck off Catalonia contained a bronze helmet with a coiled grass basket for a liner. Carmen Alfaro, in J. Ortiz, Carmen Alfaro, L. Turell, MJ Martínez, eds., Purpureae Vestes V: Basketry and Dyes in the Ancient Mediterranean World, pp. 183-195, 2016

The warriors in this Timurid manuscript carry coiled shields with central bosses. While they illustrate Chinese and Mongols, they are armed in the Iranian and not the Turanish fashion with swords, horse-armour, and lamellar cuirasses. British Library, manuscript Or. 2780, f.49v (Iran, completed in 1397/1398) c/o Wikimedia Commons

Edit 2025-06-17: check out this Persian painting with the coiled pattern on the shield!

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(scheduled 29 May 2023)

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a coiled grass bowl wrapped with light brown and off-white fibres on a vanished wooden tabletop lit by a candle and an electric lamp

A round, domed wicker shield with a spiked steel boss and a cloth-bound rim. Three short scimilars hang behind it with their handles up and blades crossed at the middle.

relief of two men with spears and large domed shields covered with lines running parallel to the rim

a group of rough soldiers in late-medieval armour and clothing; one has a coiled helmet

How To Make A Book Bloc Shield
#Guide #DIY #DIT #shield #protest #demo #acab

https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2025/06/17/how-to-make-a-book-bloc-shield-guide/

A #Pathfinder2e conversion of my older #Pokemon #MagicItems, with an #Aegislash #sword and #shield to find the leader!

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#shield #history #battle #defense #armour #armor #fight #epic #protection #medieval #warrior #knight

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如何にしてウクライナ戦争を終わらせる？
妾の答えはこうやん！

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n009df66eaf4c

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#Ukrainian_war #provide #necessary #weapon #troops #Russia #reason #time #nuclear #military #industry #aviation #dismantle #KGB #politic #structure #continue #occupation #clear #possible #intention #pretty #territory #people #accept #NATO #game #war #Zelensky #Self_Defense #shield #blade #counterattack #enemy

Як закінчити війну в Україні?
Це відповідь наложниці!

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How do we end the Ukrainian war?
Here's my answer!

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#shield #macro #macrophotography #green

戦争、その正体とは・・・・・
戦争、勝者も敗者も無い、
สงครามเป็นอาวุธที่อันตรายที่สุดที่ชาติสามารถครอบครองได้

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#dialogue #name #force #disaster #blade #greed #shield #destruction #weapon #unstoppable #armor #deadly #cruel #ferocious

Aristotle on the Pelte Shield

Fragment 498 from Valentini Rose (ed.), Aristotelis qui ferebantur librorum fragmenta (Teubner: Stuttgart, 1967) https://archive.org/details/aristotelisquif00arisgoog/

Those of us who grew up on Peter Connolly remember that Aristotle defines the pelte shield (Greece and Rome at War p. 48 “Auxiliary Troops”). What did he actually say? A bit of research in March lead me to fragment 498 in Valentine Rose’s Teubner edition of the ‘fragments’ of Aristotle. In classical philology, fragments are places where a surviving text cites or paraphrases a text which is now lost. Only rarely is a fragment literally a damaged manuscript or a scrap of papyrus. Four different texts give some version of Aristotle’s words, but I will translate the version in a commentary on Plato’s Laws:

“For a pelte is a kind of shield, as Aristotle says, which does not have a rim (ἴτυς) and is not covered in bronze, nor does it have oxhide stretched over it (περιτεταμένη) but instead goatskin.”

Like many things Aristotle said, this raises some problems. Xenophon says that some Cretans used peltai covered in bronze which flashed in the sun, and after Aristotle’s death some soldiers in the Macedonian phalanx used the pelte. Does Aristotle mean that these shields just had oxhide on one side, like Tutankhamun’s shields and Polybius’ Roman shields (6.23.3), or on both sides like shields in high medieval Europe? But this does tell us that in Aristotle’s world, some shields were covered in cowhide and others in goatskin. Since rawhide and oil-cured hide rot, without his words it would be hard to be sure that these materials were used.

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(scheduled 19 March 2022)

Edit 2025-06-11: linked scan of book

#ancient #Aristotle #armsAndArmour #fragments #Plataia2021 #shield #source

excerpt from a scholarly edition of four ancient Greek texts

戦争、その正体とは・・・・・
戦争とは、国家が持ち得る最大の凶器。
Desire, ambition. The biggest man-made disaster caused by them

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Shield

#mushroom #shield #shadows #light

A #Pathfinder2e conversion of my older #Pokemon #MagicItems, with a #Pyroar #shield to protect, and a #Pyroar #rapier to attack!

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For Goldkin, shouty sheep I drew a while ago has been turned into a handmade plushie! He's not actually this... cuddly... is he?

#furufoo #flaafy #bucktooth #postTF #plushie #shield #spear #clovenhooves #sheep #semiferal #digitigrade #hooves #horns #horizontalpupils

Drawing of a flaafy (pink bipedal sheep pokemon) with a spear slung around his back, looking somewhere off-frame with a mildly concerned expression, holding a plushie version of himself. A tiny little flaafy with a shield and a little spear much like his own. He asks "What is this.". "It's you!" someone off-frame replies. "No it's not. I'm... Am I really this unthreatening?"

#Piracy #Shield non rispetta la #legge europea?
Secondo la #CCIA, le modifiche proposte da #AGCOM, che verranno implementate tramite la piattaforma Piracy Shield, non rispettano la legge europea. #uno

https://www.punto-informatico.it/piracy-shield-non-rispetta-legge-europea/

If you saw my post last week, this week will make sense. The COVID strain from Asia is no longer just in LA and NYC but is moving into the USA - "razor blade throat" or "razor cough" COVID they call it.
#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #LongCOVID #mask #respirator #face #shield #protect #transmit #airborne #virus #heart #lungs #brain #cough #hospital #strain #infection

NY state map showing instances of COVID infection. The yellow and orange dots at NYC and Long Island are now joined by light blue dots heading north into NY state. The new COVID strain is moving into the USA quickly.

如何にしてウクライナ戦争を終わらせる？
妾の答えはこうやん！

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n009df66eaf4c

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#Ukrainian_war #provide #necessary #weapon #troops #Russia #reason #time #nuclear #military #industry #aviation #dismantle #KGB #politic #structure #continue #occupation #clear #possible #intention #pretty #territory #people #accept #NATO #game #war #Zelensky #Self_Defense #shield #blade #counterattack #enemy

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