01-24-2014, 02:06 PM
VERY IMPORTANT DETAIL-in that description of Eusebius text in fact continues:
"Fabric was of a steady square shape and it bore the inscription.Bottom side of the lance pointing straight up and ended with cross with an inscription was significantly longer and it captured in gold bust of the pious emperor with his children."
So those medaillons or roundels inside of vexilum fabric are almost certainly stylized portraits of the members of imperial family(like metal imago from earlier times).
"Fabric was of a steady square shape and it bore the inscription.Bottom side of the lance pointing straight up and ended with cross with an inscription was significantly longer and it captured in gold bust of the pious emperor with his children."
So those medaillons or roundels inside of vexilum fabric are almost certainly stylized portraits of the members of imperial family(like metal imago from earlier times).