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Auxilia shields what options are there?
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Many thanks, Peroni, and others. One point of note that may help the identification of the shield design is that the figure on the Column seems to have a 'paintbrush' crest - otherwise only seen on Praetorians on the Column IIRC - I will have to check.....perhaps indicating Guard status .. Against this, a Trajanic frieze seems to show two cavalrymen guards with hexagonal shields - one with the scorpions often identified with Praetorians/Guards and the other with a thunderbolt design which are often taken to indicate that one represents Praetorian Guard Cavalry and the other Equites Singularis, but as to which is which.......
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Re: Auxilia shields what options are there? - by TCF - 01-28-2008, 10:06 PM
Auxiliary shields - by Paullus Scipio - 01-28-2008, 11:04 PM
Auxiliary Shields - by Paullus Scipio - 01-29-2008, 01:36 AM
Auxiliary Shields - by Paullus Scipio - 01-29-2008, 11:02 AM
Re: Auxiliary shields - by Folkert van Wijk - 01-30-2008, 04:47 PM
Auxilia shield designs - by Paullus Scipio - 02-17-2008, 05:16 AM
Auxiliary Shields - by Paullus Scipio - 05-20-2008, 11:29 AM
Celtic Shields - by Paullus Scipio - 05-20-2008, 11:48 PM

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