A medieval battlefield scene with a group of armored knights holding shields and swords, standing in formation before a castle wall, flags flying, and fires burning in the background.
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Roman writer Tacitis stated: 'The booty of a city ... always falls to the soldiers if it is captured, to the officers if it surrenders.' Such loot commonly featured in Roman triumphalist art. On this marble relief of captured arms and armor, the sculptor combines Roman with Dacian and Sarmatian equipment. A draco standard sits at top center amidst helmets, cuirasses, shields, swords, a battle axe, a quiver of arrows, and a ram's-head battering ram.
Roman, marble, ca. 100-200 CE, from Rome.
British Museum, London (1805,0703.436)