THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Military Art
41. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model of the cross-section of the perimeter of a Roman army camp, defended by a ditch and an embankment reinforced by a palisade.
Plastic.
Inv. No. MCR 890.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
42. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model of the cross-section of the perimeter of a Roman army camp, defended by a ditch and an embankment reinforced by a palisade.
Plastic.
Inv. No. MCR 890.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
43. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a tortoise (testudo), a military engine used to protect troops approaching the walls of an enemy city.
Inv. No. MCR 891.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
44. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a tortoise (testudo), a military engine used to protect troops approaching the walls of an enemy city.
Inv. No. MCR 891.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
45. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a tortoise (testudo), a military engine used to protect troops approaching the walls of an enemy city.
Inv. No. MCR 891.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
46. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a tortoise (testudo), a military engine used to protect troops approaching the walls of an enemy city.
Inv. No. MCR 892.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
47. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a tortoise (testudo), a military engine used to protect troops approaching the walls of an enemy city.
Inv. No. MCR 892.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
48. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a tortoise (testudo), a military engine used to protect troops approaching the walls of an enemy city.
Inv. No. MCR 892.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
49. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a tortoise (testudo), a battle formation in which soldiers marching in close ranks protected themselves with their shields raised above their heads.
Inv. No. MCR 893.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
50. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a tortoise (testudo), a battle formation in which soldiers marching in close ranks protected themselves with their shields raised above their heads.
Inv. No. MCR 893.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
51. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a vinea, a military engine used to protect the troops, consisting of a wooden framework, roof and lattice sides covered with fresh hides or wet sheets of cloth.
Inv. No. MCR 894.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
52. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a vinea, a military engine used to protect the troops, consisting of a wooden framework, roof and lattice sides covered with fresh hides or wet sheets of cloth.
Inv. No. MCR 894.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
53. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a siege tower.
Inv. No. MCR 895.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
54. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:10) of a siege tower.
Inv. No. MCR 895.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
55. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:3) of a ballista, a military engine used to hurl javelins.
Inv. No. MCR 896.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
56. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:6) of an onager, a type of catapult used to hurl rocks.
Inv. No. MCR 897.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
57. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Scale model (1:20) of a light warship, with one bark of oars.
Inv. No. MCR 970.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
58. MILITARY ART. Rome.
Model of a legion’s standard from the Arch of the Argentarii in Rome
Inv. No. MCR 885.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
59. TOREUTICS. Etruria.
Shield.
Bronze. 7th century BCE.
From Cerveteri (Caere), from the Regolini Galassi Tomb.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Room of the Regolini-Galassi tomb.
60. MILITARY ART. Greece.
Two greaves.
Bronze. Archaic period (ca. 700—480 BCE).
Height (lenght): 50.5 and 52 cm.
Inv. No. Б. 542.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.