evidence for tabula ansata on shields

[Quintilianus]

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:

Greets,

[Tarbicus]

From Mainz, dated to about 75 AD. The two Legiones garrisoned there at the time were Legio I Adiutrix and Legio XIV Gemina.

Barker, The Armies and Enemies of Rome. P. 84, illustrations vi and vii.

The first is a rectangular scutum, the other an oval clipeus.

[Peroni]

From Mainz, dated to about 75 AD. The two Legiones garrisoned there at the time were Legio I Adiutrix and Legio XIV Gemina

For the depiction of the XIIII shield, see the tombstone of Aquilifer Gnaeus Musius.

http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/component/ ... Itemid,94/

[Matt Lukes]

They're shown rather more clearly on the of GAIVS VALERIVS CRISPVS of LEGVIII

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[Andrew Brozyna]

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.