RomanArmyTalk

Hello Everyone,

I would like to obtain photos of Roman Eagles to use the image in a reconstruction. I know from reading that the eagle can be on thunderbolts and whirl winds, on a globe, with a wreath in its mouth or a snake, or holding an olive branch in its talons?

Does anyone good photos of Roman Eagles images.....coins, paintings, armor, sculpture etc. I especially hope to find one with the snake in its mouth and something in the talons.

Thanks in advance

Paolo.
Here are a few to be going on with taken from some of the chamfrons I have made and what I find is that many depictions of the eagle do tend to show the bird with its head pointing upwards.
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Paolo.
Here is another one I have found.
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Hello Brian,

That is wonderful work. Thanks for the ideas and the pictures.

Paolo

A rather small one can be seen here: http://sutor.jimdo.com/escapees/roman/br...ail-shirt/

Here's a rather nice one from Istanbul - nothing in its beak or talons, I'm afraid.

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Couple examples here from military items.
Phalera

Armor connecting fragment

Here is one from RMO Leiden The Netherlands.

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Thank you all for the photos. So far the originals are as described with respect to the talons. The last one shows either the thunderbolts or winds.

Yet, there is non with the wreath in its mouth or the snake. I wonder what that article was on about. I know the Italic D helmet had eagle with a wreath.

Paolo.
If you check again you will find that there are a couple that do indeed have a laurel wreath in their mouth and one has a olive branch.

Here is another interesting one that I made many years ago for the Vindolanda Roman Army Museum, and I was given it on loan when I put forward the guard of honour for HRH the late Princess Margaret.
This was when she declared Hadrian's Wall a World Monument.
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That is a beautiful eagle Brian!! Was it cast in copper alloy and then gilt?

Aside from your reconstructions that are beautiful, I am looking for original depictions of precisely what you reconstructed.

You will be familiar with this - thundercloud and lighting in its talons; wreath around its wings; it may also have something in its beak.

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Thanks Michael,

I almost forgot about this one. I have seen it before but it slipped my mind.

Paolo.
All of the eagles I have shown from those chamfrons are indeed the exact copies from the Straubing pieces, and of course the one of my own was made from plate brass put together piece by piece but work done in my earlier days of reconstruction.