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Thats interesting Jurjen.
I always assumed it was so you cold tell which way up the inscription was to stand
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The line can be seen on a few incriptions, but the first time I paid any attention to it was seeing it on our scuta.
The line is always at the top, which is against the grain of modern thinking, where your line is below the text....I assume it is to differentiate between the numerals and any text. XIIIIGMV could cause confusion I would imagine, or XIVGMV
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Peroni,
Do you have a picture of this signum that you can post?
Are you therefore suggesting that copying the straight tail from a coin on a Vex would be incorrect rather a curled tail is more accurate because it was found on a signum that could have belonged in the 2nd C AD where artistic rendering of certain creatures may have changed?
Coins would seem to reflect the artistic interpretation or trend of a period, no? i.e. a capricorn from the time of Augustus may be differently drawn than one from the time of Hadrian.
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Peroni,
Thanks for the response and link. I appreciate it.
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Hi folks!
Just to make clear: The objects from Wiesbaden belong to a cart´s decoration, not to a signum. They were originally wrongly classified.
Christian K.
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