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Quote:TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS:22tjc9v2 Wrote:I have a number of other reliefs like this, set up in metopes with triglyphs in between, from some other sarcophagi. I think it was a popular style of the 1st C. BC, and the shields are definitely the first century style, oval in shape with the top and bottom cut off. I don't know the provenance of these, unfortunately:
This book has photos and a description of those friezes:
Espérandieu, Emile. "Recueil Général des Bas-reliefs, statues et bustes de la Gaul Romaine.
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shouldnt that be: one spinum....
two spina ??
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To my eyes, this looks a lot like a republican curved scutum, seen from the rear, or a scutum of a similar typology!
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Quote:shouldnt that be: one spinum....
two spina ??
One above the umbo, and one below? Two halves, split top and bottom, so to speak.
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