Book captioning isn’t leaving lots of time for blogging or other research, but it’s almost done. Today while doing a little image research I realized I had a photo on file from years back of the Ashmolean specimen of the Fimbria cistophorus (Metcalf 705). It won’t work for the book as I need the IMPERAT to be legible. I’ll pay for an image of Boston specimen instead. Still, I like the photo as it has the tags and shows the back and forth over attribution. (Metcalf endorses Witschonke and Amandry’s attribution to Pergamon now).
[…] like how the bow case is replaced with the legionary eagle (aquila). Reminds me of Fimbria’s earlier cistophorus with a legionary […]