Clear and detailed photos of the Arch de Orange

[Tarbicus]

Jim, in your post link to the arch you mention a saddle?

I can see what looks like a head! Is that the saddle beside it , or is it depicting some kind of wild cat? It is hard to tell the way that block edge cuts the image in half :?:

They're amongst photos in albums posted in this thread, but not in the specific photo I linked to in that post, sorry.

Going back to the eagle headed swords, this was posted by Arahne in the eaglehaded swords thread:
[url:3ag9et2i]http://www.livius.org/a/1/emperors/tetrarchs.jpg[/url]
Different period, but hey...

[Olibrius]

[Olibrius]

And a shield interne, no script

[Arthes]

If you look at the cavalryman in the back, on this photo, he seems to be wearing a strange kind of body armour. Anyone any idea what it is?

[url:10bxjb0b]http://www.archart.it/archart/europa/France/Orange%20-%20roman%20arch/image4.html[/url]
(I think it's scale)

....it looks like a scaleothorax...I wonder if it's one of those Etruscan designs that bridged the gap!
I've seen something similar on a Gaulish warrior before....can't remember where...

Would it be this....?
Picture from this site...: http://www.truefork.org/Photography/Etruscan_Armour.php

[Dan Diffendale]

Now this may just demonstrate my ignorance about the nature of this monument, but I was under the impression it was made to commemorate Octavian's victory at Actium against the Roman forces of Marcus Antonius- therefore the spoila are all Roman, yes? The fact that it was in 31BC could account for the older Republican style shields, right?

According to L'Arc d'Orange, Supplément a "Gallia." 15.(1962), it dates to AD 21 with a re-dedication AD 26-27. I have to request this book from storage.

[Tarbicus]

Would it be this....?
Picture from this site...: http://www.truefork.org/Photography/Etruscan_Armour.php

Ooh, 'ey. It does look alike, doesn't it. A pity there isn't a larger photo of that cavalryman. :?
[url:2csxk7w2]http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/6733/etrusc29jz1.jpg[/url]