01-18-2007, 09:32 AM
After my last visit in the Strasbourg museum I found some wonderful items Ive never seen anywhere else - all 4th century:
http://de.geocities.com/jwleonidas/Argentorate.html
1. a beautiful leg protection (after restauration):
thought to be part of parade equipment. Shown is Aeneas carrying his father and leading his son out of Troy. Petry, F. Informations archeologiques Gallia 1976, 34, fasc. 2 p.4.
Look at the round thing next to Aeneas fathers head - for me it seems to be a shield design similiar to the ones of the guards of Honorius and Arcadius on the lost Arcadius arch.
2. a fragment of a bronze lorica squamata, found in the Cathedrale of Strasbourg. Date end of 4th/ beginning 5th century. (type VII of Mv. Groller). Hatt J.J. Fouilles gallo-romainess sous la Cathedrale in:C.A.A.A.H. XIV. 1970. pp. 75-84. fig. 7
3. a decorative relief showing a set of weapons: a cuirass with a lance, a round shield, a double-axe and an amazon shield.
J.J. Hatt, Decouvertes et observations nouvelles sur les enceintes de Strasbourg. CAAH XIII, 1969. p 73-98.
http://de.geocities.com/jwleonidas/Argentorate.html
1. a beautiful leg protection (after restauration):
thought to be part of parade equipment. Shown is Aeneas carrying his father and leading his son out of Troy. Petry, F. Informations archeologiques Gallia 1976, 34, fasc. 2 p.4.
Look at the round thing next to Aeneas fathers head - for me it seems to be a shield design similiar to the ones of the guards of Honorius and Arcadius on the lost Arcadius arch.
2. a fragment of a bronze lorica squamata, found in the Cathedrale of Strasbourg. Date end of 4th/ beginning 5th century. (type VII of Mv. Groller). Hatt J.J. Fouilles gallo-romainess sous la Cathedrale in:C.A.A.A.H. XIV. 1970. pp. 75-84. fig. 7
3. a decorative relief showing a set of weapons: a cuirass with a lance, a round shield, a double-axe and an amazon shield.
J.J. Hatt, Decouvertes et observations nouvelles sur les enceintes de Strasbourg. CAAH XIII, 1969. p 73-98.
Jens Wucherpfennig