07-24-2011, 06:42 AM
M. Demetrius I am agreeing with the differentuation between palma and palmula etc. As Medusa says there is a fair degree of variation betwen the shield found and thise depicted in mosaics etc..
Medusa i was not aware that there was any real differentiation in the language for the name of objects and so did a "bare minimum google image search" And I am glad I did because I found this very informative link
http://www.socalcoins.com/collection/cae...ric42a.htm
which is describing exactly what i was talking about (excerpt for maybe the virtue)
And we must agree we have seen shields of this type being carried by various gladiators??
I will admit that the google image search did also turn up pictures of auxillary shields : :-)
Regards
Richard
Medusa i was not aware that there was any real differentiation in the language for the name of objects and so did a "bare minimum google image search" And I am glad I did because I found this very informative link
http://www.socalcoins.com/collection/cae...ric42a.htm
which is describing exactly what i was talking about (excerpt for maybe the virtue)
And we must agree we have seen shields of this type being carried by various gladiators??
I will admit that the google image search did also turn up pictures of auxillary shields : :-)
Regards
Richard
