Supplicant Soldiers' Relief from Istanbul

[Renatus]

Any chance you could link or show images of these ships on the reliefs? I'm just interested what they look like really...

Here are Freshfield drawings of the west, south and east faces of the Arcadius Column (the north face was presumably not accessible to the artist) plus part of the single face shown on a drawing in the Bibliotheque Nationale, all showing ships:

                 

                 

                 

   

And here is an image that I showed in the '4th Century Gear' thread which includes the Menestrier ship as well as some of the Freshfield ships. Menestrier's drawings are his interpretation of some earlier sketches made by Gentile Bellini that have not survived and, therefore, owe much to Renaissance ideas of what Roman soldiers etc. looked like: