08-07-2008, 10:50 AM
Leg XIIII is not the only known period shield design.
The Arch at Orange shows a legionary of II AVG carrying a shield with S shapes in the four quarters of the shields and opposing capricons which were associated with II AVG.
Caius Castricus Victor (Legio I Adiutrix) IIRC has a design depicted on the shield on his grave stone.
There are two designs shown on the column bases at Mainz, the legions based there at the time were LEG XIIII Gemina and Leg I Adiutrix. Trajan's Column also has a shield design very similar in appearance to the one of Victor.
One of the Mainz pedastals (as posted earlier) does bears an uncanny resemblence to the one on Gnaeus Musius' grave stone, even down to the two ansatae.
The Arch at Orange shows a legionary of II AVG carrying a shield with S shapes in the four quarters of the shields and opposing capricons which were associated with II AVG.
Caius Castricus Victor (Legio I Adiutrix) IIRC has a design depicted on the shield on his grave stone.
There are two designs shown on the column bases at Mainz, the legions based there at the time were LEG XIIII Gemina and Leg I Adiutrix. Trajan's Column also has a shield design very similar in appearance to the one of Victor.
One of the Mainz pedastals (as posted earlier) does bears an uncanny resemblence to the one on Gnaeus Musius' grave stone, even down to the two ansatae.
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