EditorialScutum?(Shield), mid-3rd century A.D., Painted wood and rawhide, 105.5 ? 41 ? 30 cm (41 9/16 ? 16 1/8 ? 11 13/16?in.), Yale-French Excavations at?Dura-Europos, This is the only known surviving example of the semicylindrical shield known as a scutum, us...
EditorialConstellations Ophiuchus and Serpens, with Hercules, Libra, Scorpius, and Scutum. Le serpentaire et le serpent.Handcoloured copperplate engraving from John Flamsteed and Nicolas Fortins Celestial Atlas or Atlas Celeste de Flamsteed, Lalande, Paris, 1795.