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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 ]
Scutum found at Dura-Europos. The scutum (Classical Latin: [ˈskuːt̪ʊ̃]; pl.:scuta) was a type of shield used among Italic peoples in antiquity, most notably by the army of ancient Rome starting about the fourth century BC.
Dura-Europos [a] was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Al-Salihiyah, in present-day Syria. Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who founded the Seleucid Empire as one of the ...
Scutum from Dura-Europos; Siege of Dura-Europos (256) ... Dura-Europos; U. Dura Parchment 24 This page was last edited on 6 November 2024, at 18:01 (UTC ...
However, the scutum disappeared during the Crisis of the Third Century. All troops adopted the auxiliary oval (and sometimes round or hexagonal) shield (parma or clipeus). [3] Shields, from examples found at Dura-Europos and Nydam Mose, were of vertical plank construction, the planks glued, and faced inside and out with painted leather. The ...
Scutum from Dura-Europos; W. Wandsworth Shield; Winged Gorgoneion; Witham Shield This page was last edited on 2 March 2017, at 00:23 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The excavation map of Dura-Europos. Tower 24, in the top left, was the find location of the shield. In the 1920s and 30s, Yale University and the French Academy held joint excavations of Dura-Europos, after the modern rediscovery of the site initiated with the widely published photos and findings of James Henry Breasted.
In 2011, a facsimile of the partial document was part of the Dura-Europos exhibition at Boston College, and it contained the following translation: March 19, Quinquatria, a supplication; until March 23, supplications; April 4, for the birthday of Antonius Magnus, an ox; April 9, for the accession of the deified Pius Severus, an ox