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Shield

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A carried defense in war and parade. Heraldry and apotropaic shields use the tool for different jobs.

Hellenic religion

  • Shield appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias notes dedicatory shields among sanctuary gear. A named shield mark in that periegesis, not aspis as the Iliad war-shield object walk and not a heraldic escutcheon dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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  • Shield is used in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad seats ordinary battle-shields beside the named aspis and Achilles’ worked shield throughout the fighting. A named Homeric shield in combat use, not aspis or shield-of-achilles as identity and not a Pausanias dedication dump alone.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

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Roman religion

  • Shield appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid Book 8 seats the shield Vulcan forges for Aeneas, figured with Rome’s future. A named shield in that epic, not Achilles’ Iliad shield restated and not a generic roundel dump.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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Norse tradition

Egyptian religion

  • Shield appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian ethnography and army lists name shields among Egyptian fighting gear. A named shield in that traveler’s Egypt, not a cuirass and not the Pausanias Hellenic shield seat.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Celtic tradition

Shinto

Vedic tradition

  • Shield appears in Vedic tradition.

    The Ṛgveda names protective cover (várman) among Indra’s and the warrior’s defense speech — the published shield entity carries that carried defense without inventing a separate armor id. A named Vedic defense-cover in that corpus, not aegis and not chain-mail.

    from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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Mesopotamian tradition

  • Shield appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

    The Epic of Gilgamesh seats shields among the warrior gear of Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the Humbaba and Bull of Heaven combats. A named shield in that epic, not aspis or scutum as Hellenic/Roman type-names and not sword as the cutting weapon alone.

    from Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 1200 BCE (this recension)

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Northwest Coast tradition

  • Shield appears in Northwest Coast tradition.

    Swanton’s Tlingit Myths and Texts seat shields among war and defense gear in coastal conflict speech. A named shield in that ethnography, not chimalli as Nahua shield and not Homeric aspis walks alone.

    from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909

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European folklore

  • Targe is historically related to Shield.

    Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the targe among round or slightly convex Highland and light shields. A named targe in that antient-armour speech, not a pavise mantlet, not a heater-shield knightly form, and not a buckler small fist-shield (already met).

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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  • Pavise is historically related to Shield.

    Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the pavise among tall mantlet shields of crossbowmen and siege foot. A named pavise in that antient-armour speech, not a targe, not a heater-shield, and not a kite-shield Norman form.

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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  • Heater shield is historically related to Shield.

    Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the heater shield among kite-descended knightly shields of later high-medieval heraldic form. A named heater-shield in that antient-armour speech, not a kite-shield long Norman form alone, not a pavise, and not a targe.

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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  • Kite shield is historically related to Shield.

    Meyrick’s Inquiry seats the kite shield among elongated Norman and early medieval shields tapering toward the foot. A named kite-shield in that antient-armour speech, not a later heater, not a pavise, and not a targe.

    from Samuel Rush Meyrick · A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, 1824

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  • Rondache is historically related to Shield.

    Mollett’s Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology seats Rondache in the material and craft neighborhood of shield and armour. Rondache historically related to shield by that shared workshop path, not a forced identity merge and not a modern brand SKU dump.

    from J. W. Mollett · Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology, 1883

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sources

  • Description of Greece · Pausanias

    Pausanias, Description of Greece.

  • Aeneid · Virgil

    Virgil, Aeneid.

  • Poetic Edda · Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation)

    The Poetic Edda, trans. Carolyne Larrington.

  • Histories · Herodotus

    Herodotus, Histories.

  • The Mabinogion · Anonymous (Welsh prose); Sioned Davies (translation)

    The Mabinogion, trans. Sioned Davies.

  • Kojiki · Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation)

    Donald L. Philippi, Kojiki.

  • The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)

    Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.

  • Epic of Gilgamesh

    The Epic of Gilgamesh, Standard Babylonian version (flood tablet; underworld material).

  • Tlingit Myths and Texts · John R. Swanton

    John R. Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts, BAE Bulletin 39 (1909).

  • A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour · Samuel Rush Meyrick

    Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour (1824).

  • Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology · J. W. Mollett

    J. W. Mollett, An Illustrated Dictionary of Words Used in Art and Archaeology (1883).