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The Roman scutum from Dura, 26

Wood, leather, and bronze
Roman Imperial period, 1st half 3rd c. CE
From Tower 19 at Dura/Europos (see on Pleiades), Syria, 1928-1937 excavations

The only surviving (though heavily restored) Roman rectangular shield (scutum), discovered in a tower at Dura that had probably been undermined by Sassanid besiegers in 256 CE. It would once have borne a bronze boss (umbo) covering the central handgrip.

Photographed on display in the exhibit "The World between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East" (18 March-23 June 2019) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
In the collection of Yale University Art Gallery, Yale-French Excavations at Dura-Europos
Inv. 1933.715
artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/5959

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Taken in: United States / New York / Seneca Village (historical) (show map)

Taken on: April 7, 2019

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