Birds and Animals Used in Military Insignia

This “master of animals” finial depicts a stylized man with an (attacking?) animal on each side. The man has a fungiform cap, open at the center for insertion of a pin. The man, wh...

This fragment’s size and double band design suggests that it originally ornamented the sleeve cuff of a tunic. The bands are figured as inhabited grape vine scrolls; each roundel o...

A thin, well-defined, relief lip borders this circular mirror's decorated back. The decorative scheme is organized into five concentric rings with the crouching-beast-form boss at ...

A portion of a red tapestry woven square (tabula). The design is characterized by mirror symmetry. Animals and birds flank a large abstract, jeweled candelabra plant emerging from ...

On the shoulder: This scene depicts gorgons chasing after the hero Perseus, whose most famous accomplishment was beheading one of the gorgons, Medusa; presumably here we see the tw...