09-22-2004, 08:23 AM
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Just asking, what about the scales on the Stilicho's shield? Probably were just painted, but if they were real bronze scales applied on the wood? The scales on the shield circumference look all entire and so protrunding... It could explain a so small umbo and the phalerae or imagines like if they were on an officer squamata (even if I don't remember the presence of phalerae in the late empire gears)<br>
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Valete,<br>
Titus <p></p><i></i>
Just asking, what about the scales on the Stilicho's shield? Probably were just painted, but if they were real bronze scales applied on the wood? The scales on the shield circumference look all entire and so protrunding... It could explain a so small umbo and the phalerae or imagines like if they were on an officer squamata (even if I don't remember the presence of phalerae in the late empire gears)<br>
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Valete,<br>
Titus <p></p><i></i>
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
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... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
