A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 105
n the point of a spear. In any case the maniple took itsname from the hand, and the hand is often represented as thestandard of the maniple ; fig. 92 is taken from the Trajan Column.The cross-bar, which originally carried the banner, and its hangingtassels are shown in this standard, as in No. 237,… … 94 GREEK AND ROMAN LIFE. emblem of Christianity, and the famous labarum, the miraculousstandard which Christ gave to the Emperor Constantine on the eveof the battle of the Milvian Bridge, was a cavalry vexillum of theRoman army with the monogram of Christ emblazoned on itsbanner (fig. 93). The…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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