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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 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]
The Roman scutum was a large shield designed to fit with others to form a shield wall but not overlap. Roman legions used an extreme type of shield wall called a testudo formation that covered front, sides and above. In this formation, the outside ranks formed a dense vertical shield wall and inside ranks held shields over their heads, thus ...
In ancient Roman warfare, the testudo or tortoise formation was a type of shield wall formation commonly used by the Roman legions during battles, particularly when they were the attacking force during sieges.
Ancient shield illustration from Nordisk familjebok. In ancient Rome, the ancilia (Latin, singular ancile) were twelve sacred shields kept in the Temple of Mars.According to legend, one divine shield fell from heaven during the reign of Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome.
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.
The Homeric shield is one of three figural painted shields found together in an embankment within a Roman garrison during the excavations of Dura-Europos. Dura-Europos was a border city of various empires throughout antiquity, and in modern archaeology is noteworthy for its large amount of well-preserved artifacts.
Given that the shield is embellished by lavish pictures and intricate scenes, one of the most immediate interpretations is that the shield was primarily aesthetic in form and thus in function. Some scholars such as Warde Fowler, however, argue that the images depicted on the shield are so salient for Roman history that the shield should not be ...