Scutum on the mausoleum of Munatius Plancus

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

mmmmmmmm i find the eyes VERY similar to first century horse armor, and the photo i posted was via Google.... so i am not sure wether either that, or the frieze is 3rd century.......

M.VIB.M.

[Titus Martius]

I don't know the provenance of these, unfortunately.

I think that these pictures are from 1st century AD limestone base from an honorific monumet erected for consul Sextus Appuleius.

http://www.antiquemilitaryhistory.com/i ... etope4.JPG

Is the middle thing dished shield?

[Tarbicus]

Is the middle thing dished shield?

Looks like laurels maybe, eroded smooth by the weather.

[Titus Martius]

Strange...it really looks like dished shield for me.

[MeinPanzer]

Strange...it really looks like dished shield for me.

Definitely looks like a dished shield to me, too.

[Tarbicus]

Well, I disagree strongly with you both, but it's a big world and there's plenty of room in it for everyone's opinion. The dish on that shield would be so big it could protect up to two ranks behind the bearer. :wink:

Laurels.

[MeinPanzer]

Well, I disagree strongly with you both, but it's a big world and there's plenty of room in it for everyone's opinion. The dish on that shield would be so big it could protect up to two ranks behind the bearer. :wink:

Laurels.

I think it's clearly a stylized dished shield, and I *think* it might be a gladiator shield, actually. How does it look anything like a laurel?

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

If you look closely at the bottom left part of the so called shield, which is not a shield in my opinion, you see the remains of the carving of the laurels.....

M.VIB.M.

[caiusbeerquitius]

If it were a shield, it would be one of a hoplomachus. See the left guy in this pic:

[MARCvSVIBIvSMAvRINvS]

And those shields were probably NOT hollow like the Greek ones.........

M.VIB.M.

[mcbishop]

Hi,
interesting, I'd say, they're oval. At least the one in the detailed picture seems certainly oval to me...
Mike, do you write about these shields in "Roman Military Equipment" or are there also any... ehm... more rectangular shields?

There is a proper curved rectangular shield with a spina (and the usual Roman problems with perspective;-) on the mausoleum which has not been illustrated here. As I said, I have a photo of it but it is not mine so I can't post it here. Instead I've traced the shield itself and dotted the outline of the rectangular panel so that you can see the distortion caused by its being photographed with a long lens at an angle.

Mike Bishop

[Tarbicus]

And there's yet another variant of scutum for our delight and delectation. Ta Mike.

[Caratacus]

Yes, the 4th item is from the honorific monument erected for the consul Sextus Appuleius. I think that No.5 is also from this monument, although I am less sure about the others. I think it's in Rome somewhere!

Caratacus (Mike Thomas)

[Alexandr K]

Hi,
thank you very much, Mike.
Greetings
Alexandr

[Titus Martius]

Hi, I think the scutum on this Caligula's coin has spina too...am I right?