A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 103
fall ages have celebrated their achievements by the display ofarmour or similar spoils which they have stripped from theiropponents ; but the custom of building effigies with the emptyarmour, to be left for a monument on the battlefield, as a tokenof victory, belonged properly to the Greeks.… … Fig. 90.—Roman LegionarySoldier from the TrajanColumn. 92 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. /V dedication of the monument to a deity, as other spoils were dedicatedin the temples. In the centre of the Wall-Cases 116-117 two suitsof armour are set up in this fashion (Nos. 210, 211). In Case 111there are a small…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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