File:Vexilloid of the Roman Empire.svg
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English: Vexillum of the Roman Empire. Latina: Vexillum Romanum. |
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| Source | The vexillum of the Roman Empire was a red banner with the letters SPQR in Gold surrounded by a gold wreath hung on a military standard topped by a Roman eagle or an image of the goddess Victoria made of silver or bronze.[1][2][3][4] |
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References
- ↑ Modern reconstructed vexillum of the Roman Empire with the goddess Victoria above a red banner with the letters SPQR in gold:[dead link]
- ↑ Website for Imperial Roman re-enactors shows modern reconstructions of Roman Vexilla:[dead link]
- ↑ Roman Standards shown from an illustration in “Signa Militaria", by James Yates (in the public domain) in the book A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (pp. 1044–1046):
- ↑ Roman Standard with an Aquila (the Roman Eagle) without the red vexillum with the letters SPQR in gold (Source=John J. Anderson A School History of England (New York: Effingham Maynard & Co., 1889):
