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There was a set of sheets going around some time back on here with shield images on it.
Cannot recall who compiled it though.
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Quote:There was a set of sheets going around some time back on here with shield images on it.
Cannot recall who compiled it though.
That would be great to see indeed.
Anyway, it is a pity that there is nothing like Notitia Dignitatum for this period.
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"The traditional winged thunderbolt legionary symbolism is absent from Dura [3rdC] rectangular shields. The thunderbolt is well known from from first and early second century monuments. However the motif is difficult to trace after the early second century, and it is quite possible that it was abandoned in the ... second ... century. It is virtually absent from the column of Marcus Aurelius (except perhaps in one scene) but this MAY BE because designs were painted on."
Simon James, Excavations at Dura Europus Final Report VII, pg. 164 (2004)
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Quote:"The traditional winged thunderbolt legionary symbolism is absent from Dura [3rdC] rectangular shields. The thunderbolt is well known from from first and early second century monuments. However the motif is difficult to trace after the early second century, and it is quite possible that it was abandoned in the ... second ... century. It is virtually absent from the column of Marcus Aurelius (except perhaps in one scene) but this MAY BE because designs were painted on."
Simon James, Excavations at Dura Europus Final Report VII, pg. 164 (2004)
Thank you very much for this info.
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Quote:Has anybody ever put together a comprehensive compendium (book, database, website etc) of known Roman shield designs? It strikes me that there are actually quite a large number of them, well beyond the usual ones from Trajan's Column and the ND, and many from rather obscure and inaccessible sources. Off the top of my head, there are Republican sarcophagi, the galley relief from Praeneste, the columns of Marcus Aurelius and Theodosius, Arch of Constantine, Dura Europos (several, beyond the famous ones), Piazza Armerina mosaics, Mainz column bases, Puteoli reliefs, the Arch of Orange, various catacomb paintings, the Luxor frescoes, the Egyptian shield mentioned above, the Apamea stelae, the Alba bathhouse mosaics, and no doubt several others... An image of the source and a reconstruction drawing or painting would be pretty good.
An extensive, though not exhaustive, collection of shield patterns of all periods is illustrated and discussed in Phil Barker,
The Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome, 4th ed., 1981 (Wargames Research Group), pp.82-108. Those of the Republican and Early Imperial period at least are said to be based upon drawings from monuments made by Paul McDonnell-Staff.
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I have found only one page of this source I mentioned, if you are interested Martin.
PM me if you are interested in it.
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