01-22-2011, 07:20 AM
I assume you mean the type with straight top and bottom, and curved sides, probably derived by 'cutting down' the original 'ovoid' shape?
Judging by the iconography, this type appears around 10 BC, still with the original 'spina' and 'barleycorn' boss/umbo, and as you correctly point out, is still depicted on Trajan's column and the Adamklissi metopes, alongside a slightly modified similar type with circular boss/umbo.
It seems to have still been in service at least as late as 175 AD, for on the Marcus Aurelius column both are depicted, along with the straight-sided 'scutum' and the 'new' late Roman dished oval type, all in use by 'Legionary' type troops....
Judging by the iconography, this type appears around 10 BC, still with the original 'spina' and 'barleycorn' boss/umbo, and as you correctly point out, is still depicted on Trajan's column and the Adamklissi metopes, alongside a slightly modified similar type with circular boss/umbo.
It seems to have still been in service at least as late as 175 AD, for on the Marcus Aurelius column both are depicted, along with the straight-sided 'scutum' and the 'new' late Roman dished oval type, all in use by 'Legionary' type troops....
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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