09-23-2017, 10:48 AM
(09-22-2017, 11:47 AM)Nathan Ross Wrote: Yes, I've across quite a few papers like that!
Unfortunately there's not much more we can say about VI Parthica, which seems to have had little impact on history... However, the appearance of the caduceus (if that's what it is) is quite interesting - one of the very few survivals of overtly pagan imagery on the shield designs of the late 4th-5th century (the only other one, I think, being the classic 'winged victory' that appears a couple of times).
A learned friend of mine suggested a few days ago that the standard of Lepontius, the Strasbourg soldier, might be associated with Mercurius..
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)