02-24-2017, 01:05 AM
(02-24-2017, 12:20 AM)Renatus Wrote:(02-23-2017, 11:16 PM)markhebb Wrote: These supplicant soldiers?
Yes: not visible on Adrian's earlier visit to Istanbul. See this post:
http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/thread-...#pid299681
Speidel has an interesting take on these soldiers - although i disagree with his belief that the Scholae Palatinae were the bodyguards of Magnus Maximus.
See-
Speidel, M.P. (1995) 'Die Garde des Maximus auf der Theodosiussaüle', Istanbuler Mitteilungen 45