01-12-2011, 07:14 PM
Salvete,
I was wondering if there is any possibility that each imperial praetorian cohort had eagle as it's standard or it was standard of whole praetorian guard. I don't know any comtemporary written mention of praetorian eagle standard, but there are several depictions of eagles on praetorian related reliefs:
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h303/ ... sAsper.jpg
Tombstone of Marcus Pompeius Asper
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h303/ ... 41_o-1.jpg
Louvre praetorians
and (on the left, but eagle missing)
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_ima ... eplica.jpg
Traian's Column
and coins:
![[Image: Roman-Coin-Scorpio.jpg]](http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h303/titus_martius/Roman-Coin-Scorpio.jpg)
Galba
http://romancoins.info/LEGPRAETjpg.jpg
Marc Antony
I was wondering if there is any possibility that each imperial praetorian cohort had eagle as it's standard or it was standard of whole praetorian guard. I don't know any comtemporary written mention of praetorian eagle standard, but there are several depictions of eagles on praetorian related reliefs:
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h303/ ... sAsper.jpg
Tombstone of Marcus Pompeius Asper
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h303/ ... 41_o-1.jpg
Louvre praetorians
and (on the left, but eagle missing)
http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_ima ... eplica.jpg
Traian's Column
and coins:
Galba
http://romancoins.info/LEGPRAETjpg.jpg
Marc Antony
Martin
