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13 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

We are adding more letters from @Nescio examples.

To clarify, I proposed two attested glyph variants for the Α and two for the Λ, to replace those (modern) shapes shown earlier.

12 minutes ago, Lion.Kanzen said:

And some references that Alexander show me.

11 hours ago, Stan` said:

Yes I wanted to showcase them on social media but we need to get rid of the innacurate ones first.

May I ask which sources you artists are using for the patterns? Books? Greek pottery? Something else?

Here's a nice amphora from Wikimedia Commons:

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Warrior_Alkimachos_Painter_MAN.jpg

 

 

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On 5/9/2020 at 3:09 PM, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

I noticed you gave the Athenian heroes much less interesting shield patterns. Themistocles just gets the standard champion shield and Pericles a generic blurry winged horse texture? 

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Perhaps an eye shield for one of the Athenian heros ?

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The uniform patterns are easy to do (the fist line, the two left ones on second +, dolphin plus the last too on the last line) with those patterns you can easily bake new ones. :)

eye and orcomeno are a bit harder and the hardest would  be the purple one.

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2 hours ago, Stan` said:

eye and orcomeno are a bit harder and the hardest would  be the purple one.

Purple is from Alcibiades.

I find the Hoplons with Boeotian shield painted on interesting; the coins i found are a bit unclear on whetever they are depicting a pattern on a round shield, or if actual Boeotian shields were still in use.

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