I received several private requests regarding Roman officer; I don’t know the sources of reconstruction but I only know the shield is copied from Piazza Armerina’s polychrome mosaics; on this big and spectacular mosaic are represented hunt’s scenes with men and animals (“The big hunt” and “the small hunt”) and runs chariot. I suppose that these figures are soldiers of legions of frontier zones that, very skilled in hunting, were exempted from the services (guards, etc) and were deputies to supplying to the capture of the animals for the shows of the circus; they were so-called venatores immunes.
One of this men aim an elliptic shield with subdivided field in four sectors but without leather rim and without circular plate of the semispheric umbo; the four colours are - from hourly direction from left - yellow, red, white and blue avion, not green, as presented on box-art (copied from table G1of Osprey n° 390 “Roman military clothing (2)!
And the same four colours are present on the door of arena represented on another portion of mosaic! Certain, this analogy in not casual and had a sense that, today, we don’t know.
“with a little help for my (model-makers) friends”: when You built or paint any subject, look at always original sources and not reconstruction and drawings.
I don’t present these photos (man and door) for copyright, but anyone can see on internet.
"Tal Robert"
One of this men aim an elliptic shield with subdivided field in four sectors but without leather rim and without circular plate of the semispheric umbo; the four colours are - from hourly direction from left - yellow, red, white and blue avion, not green, as presented on box-art (copied from table G1of Osprey n° 390 “Roman military clothing (2)!
And the same four colours are present on the door of arena represented on another portion of mosaic! Certain, this analogy in not casual and had a sense that, today, we don’t know.
“with a little help for my (model-makers) friends”: when You built or paint any subject, look at always original sources and not reconstruction and drawings.
I don’t present these photos (man and door) for copyright, but anyone can see on internet.
"Tal Robert"
