04-16-2008, 10:24 PM
Hi Adrian !!
...uuum, to some degree,and it may be a matter of interpretation, but I have a much larger image of that particular metope, and I am all but certain there is no shoulder doubling.....what you are looking at is the upper level of pteruges emerging at the shoulder... combined with the sword scabbard fastenings....
However, you are quite right! There is one metope where a shoulder doubler is displayed (but only one)... on a squamata!
There are a couple of oddities about this figure.( I apologise for the quality of the reproduction, but itis as good as I can get it) There is only one doubler, and it is on the 'wrong' side from its cut ( i.e. the indent is on the inner/chest side, when normally you would expect to see it on the outer/arm side....a 'left' doubler, worn on the right ).
Next, he is clearly wearing a greave on the left leg ( it comes up over his braccae, c.f. right leg ) and the greave seems to have a head of some sort, possibly a lion's head or similar, embossed on the kneecap.
Finally, although the head is all but gone, there is a tantalising suggestion of what may be a crista transversa/crossways crest above the faint outline of the helmet.
When viewing try enlarging the image, and displaying it in 'negative' to get some of these features to come out....
Over the years, given the squamata, decorated greave, possible transverse crest etc, one is very tempted to suggest this figure is meant to be a centurion......
Quote:Beg to differ, but this soldier has a shoulder doubling Paul...
...uuum, to some degree,and it may be a matter of interpretation, but I have a much larger image of that particular metope, and I am all but certain there is no shoulder doubling.....what you are looking at is the upper level of pteruges emerging at the shoulder... combined with the sword scabbard fastenings....
However, you are quite right! There is one metope where a shoulder doubler is displayed (but only one)... on a squamata!
There are a couple of oddities about this figure.( I apologise for the quality of the reproduction, but itis as good as I can get it) There is only one doubler, and it is on the 'wrong' side from its cut ( i.e. the indent is on the inner/chest side, when normally you would expect to see it on the outer/arm side....a 'left' doubler, worn on the right ).
Next, he is clearly wearing a greave on the left leg ( it comes up over his braccae, c.f. right leg ) and the greave seems to have a head of some sort, possibly a lion's head or similar, embossed on the kneecap.
Finally, although the head is all but gone, there is a tantalising suggestion of what may be a crista transversa/crossways crest above the faint outline of the helmet.
When viewing try enlarging the image, and displaying it in 'negative' to get some of these features to come out....
Over the years, given the squamata, decorated greave, possible transverse crest etc, one is very tempted to suggest this figure is meant to be a centurion......
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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