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You see it a lot among re-enactors, tabula ansata with the legions name.
What evidence is there for this? If you look at shield emblems on Roman artwork, they don't seem to have existed. :roll:
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Quote:From Mainz, dated to about 75 AD. The two Legiones garrisoned there at the time were Legio I Adiutrix and Legio XIV Gemina.
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The Armies and Enemies of Rome. P. 84, illustrations
vi and vii.
The first is a rectangular scutum, the other an oval clipeus.
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They're shown rather more clearly on the of GAIVS VALERIVS CRISPVS of LEGVIII
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Don't forget the Adamklissi monument. The panel that is currently housed in Istanbul shows Legionaries with the ansata on their shields.
http://www.artres.com/c/htm/CSearchZ.as ... NTWAG7JZRD
Alot of the surviving leather shield covers also feature the ansata.
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