Relief depicting a Roman legionnaire (Berlin SK 887)
A relief depicting a Roman legionnaire is in the Pergamon Museum and belongs to the Berlin Collection of Antiquities . The relief , which is dated to the end of the first century AD, was found in Pozzuoli around 1800 .
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A Roman Praetorian , a member of the Roman elite troops and bodyguard of the emperor, is depicted on the relief, which is 159 cm high and 86 cm wide, made of gray-bluish-white marble . He wears a tunic and over it the paenula , a funnel-shaped sewn cloak made of linen or wool. The tunic is pulled up above the knees through the girdle ( cingulum ), the end of the girdle still peeks out from under the paenula. He carries a small shield called parma under his left arm, and his sword hangs over his shoulder on the other side. The soldier is holding a short javelin in his hand.
The praetorian figure is carved out of the vaulted relief ground in the form of a high relief. The left margin had to be supplemented, the right and the upper margin have been preserved in the original. The relief plate probably belonged to a three-sided base . Parts of the other two sides are believed to be in the University Museum of Philadelphia . Another Praetorian is shown on one plate, and two legionnaires of northern auxiliary troops on the third plate . It is assumed that the base initially belonged to an equestrian statue of Domitian , whose relief plates and a corresponding inscription plate were reworked for an honorary arch of Trajan in Puteoli after the death of Domitian and his damnatio memoriae . There the relief was discovered around 1800 and acquired in Rome for Berlin in 1830 .
literature
- Max Kunze : Relief depicting a Roman legionnaire . In: State Museums in Berlin. Prussian cultural property. Antikensammlung (Ed.): The Antikensammlung in the Pergamon Museum and in Charlottenburg . von Zabern, Mainz 1992, ISBN 3-8053-1187-7 , p. 224.
- Relief figure of a Roman warrior . In: Königliche Museen zu Berlin (Ed.), Alexander Conze (preliminary work): Description of the ancient sculptures with the exclusion of the Pergamene finds . Spemann, Berlin 1891, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 16-diglit-34567 , pp. 358–359. (Directory No. 887)
Remarks
- ↑ Inventory number Berlin SK 887
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '15 " N , 13 ° 23' 47" E