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Limes Museum scutum - Tarbicus - 05-25-2006
I love this scutum.
![[Image: AF31k.jpg]](http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/limes-museum/sqhm/alf/abb/kb/AF31k.jpg)
A rarely large photo here:
[url:1exdww0v]http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/limes-museum/sqhm/alf/ogz/AF31.jpg[/url]
From [url:1exdww0v]http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/limes-museum/sqhm/alf/texte/1104limes.html[/url]
Does anyone have more information about it? Am I correct it is a reconstruction, or at the least modern? From what I can tell it's wooden, leather covered, with metal decoration (and what awesome decoration it is!).
That there be a scutum I'd be mighty proud to carry.
I'd also be proud to wear the caligae below it on the above webpage, and you can really see how the damage was done to civilian faces (that doesn't particularly enthrall me though).
re - Johnny Shumate - 05-26-2006
That is a great looking shield! Would the metal "lightning bolts" be applied so loosely?
Johnny
Re: Limes Museum scutum - Flavius Promotus - 05-26-2006
The hobnails look good - very much like the Roman ones!
Re: Limes Museum scutum - Martin Moser - 05-26-2006
I talked to the director of the museum about it a couple of years ago, and according to him, IIRC, the shield was made in the early 1900's.
Re: Limes Museum scutum - Tarbicus - 05-26-2006
Quote:IIRC, the shield was made in the early 1900's.Martin, do you recall anything else he may have said about it?
Re: Limes Museum scutum - Martin Moser - 05-26-2006
No, unfortunately not, but I will be there in September at the latest, so if you are not in a hurry I can ask again then
Re: Limes Museum scutum - Martin Moser - 05-26-2006
Just checked the Limesmuseum (guide) book by Philzinger - it only says that the shield is a modern reconstruction, so no original pieces on it, and most probably modelled after some trajan's column scene. I remember that it is rather small, around 80-90 cm high or so ...
Re: Limes Museum scutum - Tarbicus - 05-27-2006
Thanks for that Martin.