I can't praise you highly enough. This is superb. My own special interest is the Late republic through to the Julio-Claudian period so this is "right up my street". Please provide as many photographs as you can.
The Eighteenth Legion Lybica was an Antonine foundation. I think it is the minority but nonetheless a highly interesting opinion that the designation was retained by the Octavian Eighteenth after Actium. Incidentally, for other beginners, the figure depicted on the vexillum and on the pole is the goddess Victoria, the personification of Victory, bearing palm and laurel and surmounting the globe.
This early first century work is my delight, and the studs, too, are beautiful beyond belief. Made from wax - a true artist, Ave Magistre!
P.S. I haggled a little as to whether or not I ought to include this criticism, but I am rather perplexed as to why the vexillum gives the form Lybicae I.e. gen. Singular (of a Lybian) evidently not, or to or for a Libyan, ditto, or a similarly grammatically incorrect nominative, vocative or accusative plural. All references I have found allude to the Legion as merely Lybica ( I.e. feminine of Lybicus, Lybica , Lybicum, first declension adjective.
The inscription on the coin reads Marcus the Augur, Triumvir Constituted for the Restoration of the Republic. [This coin was struck] for the Eighteenth Legion named the Lybian. I fear rather that you have taken the dative phrase legioni duovigesimae Lybicae (for the eighteenth legion called the Libyan) and used LYBICAE where LYBICA should be used.
No offence is meant - I am almost sure you are right and I am wrong - but inquire out of curiosity.
PPS although enormously later, the sole surviving vexillum, of third century date, depicts Victoria.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vex...e_Arts.png
The Eighteenth Legion Lybica was an Antonine foundation. I think it is the minority but nonetheless a highly interesting opinion that the designation was retained by the Octavian Eighteenth after Actium. Incidentally, for other beginners, the figure depicted on the vexillum and on the pole is the goddess Victoria, the personification of Victory, bearing palm and laurel and surmounting the globe.
This early first century work is my delight, and the studs, too, are beautiful beyond belief. Made from wax - a true artist, Ave Magistre!
P.S. I haggled a little as to whether or not I ought to include this criticism, but I am rather perplexed as to why the vexillum gives the form Lybicae I.e. gen. Singular (of a Lybian) evidently not, or to or for a Libyan, ditto, or a similarly grammatically incorrect nominative, vocative or accusative plural. All references I have found allude to the Legion as merely Lybica ( I.e. feminine of Lybicus, Lybica , Lybicum, first declension adjective.
The inscription on the coin reads Marcus the Augur, Triumvir Constituted for the Restoration of the Republic. [This coin was struck] for the Eighteenth Legion named the Lybian. I fear rather that you have taken the dative phrase legioni duovigesimae Lybicae (for the eighteenth legion called the Libyan) and used LYBICAE where LYBICA should be used.
No offence is meant - I am almost sure you are right and I am wrong - but inquire out of curiosity.
PPS although enormously later, the sole surviving vexillum, of third century date, depicts Victoria.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vex...e_Arts.png
Patrick J. Gray
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
'' Now. Close your eyes. It's but a short step to the boat, a short pull across the river.''
''And then?''
''And then, I promise you, you'll dream a different story altogether''
From ''I, Claudius'', by J. Pulman after R. Graves.
