clipeus
Sign in to savethumb|Clipeus of Iupiter-Ammon, conserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona|Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona thumb|A Victorian depiction of a hoplite with a clipeus In the military of classical antiquity, a clipeus (; Ancient Greek: ἀσπίς) was a large shield worn by the Greek hoplites and Romans as a piece of defensive armor, which they carried upon the arm, to protect them from the blows of their enemies. It was round in shape and in the middle was a bolt of iron, or of some other metal, with a sharp point. The clipeus was more-or-less identical to the earlier aspis.
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- In art
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- See also
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thumb|Clipeus of Iupiter-Ammon, conserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona|Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona thumb|A Victorian depiction of a hoplite with a clipeus In the military of classical antiquity, a clipeus (; Ancient Greek: ἀσπίς) was a large shield worn by the Greek hoplites and Romans as a piece of defensive armor, which they carried upon the arm, to protect them from the blows of their enemies. It was round in shape and in the middle was a bolt of iron, or of some other metal, with a sharp point. The clipeus was more-or-less identical to the earlier aspis.
==In art== thumb|An Imago clipeata on a sarcophagus at the Villa la Pietra near Florence Pliny the Elder also describes the custom of having a bust-portrait of an ancestor painted on a clipeus, and having it hung in a temple or other public place. From this round bas-reliefs in a medallion on sarcophagi and in other forms are known as imago clipeata or "clipeus portraits", a term usually restricted to Roman art.