08-14-2017, 12:17 PM
It looks to me rather like a cinerary urn. With a hole in the front... so you can see who's inside??
Could it be that the 'urn' contained an imago of the dead man - which for some reason was being carried into battle? Or maybe a purely symbolic representation, as the man (or emperor?) whose imago would have been on the standard is now dead?
Could it be that the 'urn' contained an imago of the dead man - which for some reason was being carried into battle? Or maybe a purely symbolic representation, as the man (or emperor?) whose imago would have been on the standard is now dead?
Nathan Ross
