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Roman Military Equipment: Roman Shields; Lacus Curtius Online—University of Chicago; for online translations of Plutarch, Polybius, Cassius Dio and other antique authors "Roman Legion Shield Patterns" (group). Archived from the original on February 9, 2013. For the study and photographs of Roman legion and auxillia shield and painting patterns
The parmula was the shield used by thraex gladiators. It was also used by the Roman vexilliferi or flag bearers that carried the standard that marked the cohort, as well as by most early auxiliaries. In the Pyrrhic dance it was raised above the head and struck with a sword so as to emit a loud ringing noise.
A scutarius in ancient Rome was any of the various types of gladiator who used a large shield called a samnite shield, [1] which is named after another type of gladiator—a samnite. In Latin, the shield was called a scutum—where the name scutarius comes from. Due to having a large shield, scutarii would wear shin armour (ocrea) on their ...
Certainly by the siege of Gamla in 67 CE, it was already in Roman use where a complete spaulder (shoulder guard) for a manica was found in the panoply of L. Magus. [9] This date coincides with the adoption of manica by Gladiators in the late 1st century CE proposed by Robinson, or the first half of the 1st century CE proposed by Bishop. [7] [10]
Secutor Mosaic, 4th century AD, showing a retiarius or "net fighter", with a trident and cast net, fighting a secutor Knife handle in the form of a secutor, showing the distinctive shield, helmet, and sword. A secutor (pl. secutores) was a class of gladiator in ancient Rome.
A rare knife handle in the shape of a gladiator has been discovered at Hadrian’s Wall in the north of England, shining a new light on the celebrity status of the ancient Roman combatants.
The scutum from Dura-Europos is the only surviving semi-cylindrical shield from Roman times. It is now in the Yale University Art Gallery (inventory number 1933.715). The shield was found in the excavation campaign of 1928/37 on Tower 19 of Dura-Europos (in present-day Syria). [ 1 ]
Clipeus of Iupiter-Ammon, conserved at the Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona A Victorian depiction of a hoplite with a clipeus. In the military of classical antiquity, a clipeus (Latin: [ˈklɪpeʊs̠]; Ancient Greek: ἀσπίς) was a large shield worn by the Greek hoplites and Romans as a piece of defensive armor, which they carried upon the arm, to protect them from the blows of ...