01-14-2007, 02:34 PM
If you look in Connolly's "Greece and Rome at War" you'll see a Gallic relief depicting a warrior holding a shield similarly shaped to the Batavian later tombstone. I don't have it handy, but I think it was from the 2nd or 3rd century BC.
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