Trident from Kempten?

[jho]

Found on ROMA VICTRIX There said to be part of a standard. Provenance, anyone?

According to Weckerlin, Die römische Abteilung des Paulus-Museums der Stadt Worms, 1885 p. 124, 144, pl. IV ill. 5 this was found in the Rhine a Mainz.

It is identified by the author as part of a signum apparently because it was associated by the author with what looks like a typical dolabra sheath but is identified by the author as the metal binding for the name plate of a signum. I believe this object was also included in one of the AuhV volumes but I have not checked.

In spite of the clearly wrong association with the dolabra sheath, the identification could still be correct: If I recollect correctly, vexilla are sometimes shown as hung from the pole by a simple piece of rope. The outer extensions of the "trident" could conceivably have served to catch such a rope holding a vexillum.

I would assume that Töpfer deals with this find in his "Signa Militaria" but I do not have access to it.