08-11-2008, 08:05 PM
Sorry Hib, I know this isn't about the shield blazon, but I am not convinced that P. Flavoleius Cordus' shield is supposed to be flat. It seems to be a little dished and whilst this could simply be a sculptural necessity to depict his body in the round, it may not necessarily be so. It may be that in sculpting the shield to be depicted in slung position the sculptor simply did not make a very good job of depicting a dished shield. He would hardly have been the first and the proportions on the Rhineland stones are not always quite as accurate as some would have us believe.
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