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Over 160 artifacts from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples are headed to the Dallas Museum of Art in December.

https://hyperallergic.com/major-exhibition-of-pompeii-treasures-will-make-its-us-debut/

Heavy cavalry was prevalent in the ancient world (the Persians used them extensively), but the Romans still used the legion formation then.

I'd like to try my hand at it, but I can only find kids paper crafts and people gluing things on head bands. I doubt this was how the ancients whent about i, so if anyone knows, or knows of a historical tutorial, please let me know as well!

A Roman marble "Relief from an honorary monument to Marcus Aurelius, depicting the subjugation of the Germanic tribes. Marble, 176–180 A.D. Formerly in Rome, Church of Saints Luke and Martina. On the Capitoline Hill since 1515". Per the Capitoline Museums in Rome where this triumphal object is on display. Barbarians surrendered to the Emperor wearing a cuirass, alluding to the Marcomannic wars that he led. In the 16th century, there was some restoration works on the relief so that the horse and pose of the emperor would resemble more the bronze equestion statue of him, also now on display in the Capitoline Museums.

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Not posting the store frontage because the picture I got features a dead bird.

I mean, they're highly privileged than an average legionary so what made them turn into the famous stereotype of a Praetorian we know today?

Author and source: Jean-Claude Golvin

This was a tight lid implemented by Augustus that got released under the reign of Septimius Severus after his victory.

We know that he needed troop morale and what best way to win loyalty than allow for military service marriages. But this surely had some consequences that perhaps he did not see.

Basically this new privilege allowed for the Roman law to protect these new marriages on the frontier and it is seen as a sort of precursor to Caracalla's famous edict.

But I've seen some folks say that this was done to secure the region. Keep the soldiers in those provinces and have a hereditary recruit system. In other words, Rome just couldn't afford to send her boys out in the campaigns anymore.

Basically the frontiers became areas where peregrini mothers and soldier fathers had families and this kept them tied to the land.

This raises the question, why and how did this all happen?

We recall just back in Domitian and Trajan's time, something like this was unthinkable.

I mean what was Septimius Severus thinking? It was a very explicit thing. The Roman soldier does not marry, his duty is to the camp. After his service he gets his discharged and can marry who he wants.

Look back at Trajan's hyper-mobile army of bachelors. That was Rome at its peak teritorially. How did Rome go from that to an army manning the frontier provinces staffed by local families in less than a hundred years?

A few views from Leptis Magna in Libya. Walking through these ancient streets and seeing the monumental ruins in person was an incredible experience. The site still preserves remarkable Roman architecture, including the famous Arch of Septimius Severus.

A Roman bronze lamp that was found in Fântâna Mare, Tulcea, Romania, dates to the 2nd-3rd century AD and is on display in the Museum of History and Archaeology in Tulcea, Romani. To me it looks like for Roman tastes a stereotypical African head below a Greek inscription, although it is unfortunate that the museum did not describe the item in depth. What are your thoughts on it?

Did a one week holiday in Tunisia and saw this amazingly preserved mosaic in El Jem's Archeological Museum

Cornicenes were part of the military signalling system without which a large unit was difficult to keep in order. A commander's voice could not carry over the noise of formation, march or battle, so sound commands helped transmit alarm, assembly, movement and changes of mode. Cornicenes worked beside the standard (flag bearer) group because standard and sound together gave soldiers a clear point of reference.

Could a soldier tell what legion another soldier belonged to based on their shield?

I am writing a story about someone from the Twelfth Legion and wonder if another legion can recognize them based on the shield.

Would the shield have the legion number on it?

Also what customization could a soldier do with his shield?

What is your personal favourite Roman armour, me personally I would say lorica segmentata or lorica Squamata