Intact Roman vexillum from Egypt

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Legio XXI Rapax new vexillvm - a damn accurate one :-) It’s made of hand woven linen, not cut or sewn, just natural width, hand dyed in red and also hand fringed. Figure and legion's name were painted (not embroided!) in ancient encaustic technique, using heated beeswax and natural resin, to which colored pigments are added. Fabric color may fade with the time as it should naturally, but encaustic will stay and it's also waterproof. Inspiration came from a well-known vexillvm from Egypt with an image of goddess Victoria. But we didn’t want to use this widely copied nowadays example, so here is god of war - Mars (a young one ;-) ), based on 3 original frescos from Pompeii and Herculaneum. Now just stick it to the spear...

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