Scutum Covers (Tegimen) pictures?

[Peroni]

With regard to the Roomberg tegimen, (the one with the capricorns)

if you have a copy of the Carol van Driel-Murray article on the shield cover the shield cover is;

a. Large enough for a curved-face shield
b. Rounded at the top part
c. Clearly belonged to an auxiliary citizen cohort (Coh XV Voluntariorum)

The estimated size for the actual shield board (according to van Driel-Murray) would be in the region of 75cm wide - which would suggest that the board would have been curved to give a face of around 62cm.

75cm wide is a bit TOO wide to be a flat faced shield in my opinion.

To back up the use of round bosses on curve-faced shields, there is the boss found with the I- G -A at Nijmegen which is shaped to fit a curved shield, (H Brunsting and D C Steures - ARMA Vol. 3 No. 1 ISSN 0960-9172)

and another in the museum at Aalen of a very similar shape.

Nijmegen boss..


Aalen boss..