Diameter9 tenths m
18.8Dominoes
1.1 hundredthsOlympic straights
3.6Tambourine diameters
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The bronze-faced hoplon carried by Spartan warriors/Historical Weapons
The aspis (also called hoplon) was a large, round, concave shield made of wood and faced with a thin sheet of bronze. Spartans famously marked theirs with the Greek letter lambda. The shield was heavy enough to be used as a weapon in close combat.