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This fairly crude figured tombstone depicts a full-length bare-headed standard bearer (signifer) with his left hand holding a set of writing tablets and his right a standard.
He wears a tunic under a cape (paenula) which has been folded up onto the shoulders to leave the arms visible and thereby accentuating the V-shaped 'point' at the bottom of the cape. A scarf (or excess material from the tunic) is visible about the neck. The deceased is shown bare-legged but with long sleeves on his tunic, which has apparently been gathered (or 'bloused') at the waist. No sidearms are depicted. Boots appear to be shown on the feet of the soldier, although precise details are indistinct.
The standard is depicted as having four bossed discs or phalerae
attached, one above the other, and is topped by what may be the open hand
usually taken to be the sign of the maniple. Above and below the discs are
hemispherical decorations.
| Max. height: | 1850mm; |
| Max. width: | 660mm; |
L DVCCIVS
L VOLT RVFI
NVS VIEN
SIGNIF LEG VIIII
AN XXIIX
H S E
(RIB 673)
Trinity Gardens, behind Holy Trinity Church, in Micklegate, York (GB)
Last quarter of 1st century A.D. (but probably Flavian)
Yorkshire Museum, York (GB)
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