Legio IV Scythica Roman Standard
Legio IV Scythica Roman Standard
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The Legio IV Scythica was created by Mark Antony around 42 BC for his campaign against the Parthian Empire, from which it also took the nickname Parthica. The epithet Scythica refers instead to operations against Scythian peoples settled in the lower Danube area, where the legion was active in Moesia, probably based at Viminacium. After Actium (31 BC) the IV passed into the service of Augustus, engaged in the hard fighting of 29–27 BC along the Danube.
Under Nero the legion was transferred to Syria, with its headquarters at Cyrrhus, taking part in the Roman–Parthian wars and suffering the humiliating surrender of Rhandeia in 62. Its reputation tarnished, it was excluded from the final, victorious phase of Corbulo’s campaign. In AD 69 it supported Vespasian in the civil war, though without fighting directly, and in 70 it was used to suppress an anti-Jewish pogrom in Antioch.
In the 2nd–3rd centuries it took part in Trajan’s campaigns and the wars against the Parthians and Sasanians; between 181 and 183 its commander was Septimius Severus, who later used it again in his eastern conflicts. The Legio IV Scythica is still recorded as stationed in Syria in the early 5th century, with the capricorn as its distinctive emblem.
HISTORICAL-PHILOLOGICAL STANDARD
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Format
40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 in), balanced and versatile proportions -
Philological reconstruction
The choice of animal on the standard is based on historical and numismatic sources -
Colour accuracy
Red inspired by the only surviving original Roman standard, preserved at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow
Product specifications for the banner
Product: Historical-philological standard
Material: print on canvas
Size: 40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 in)
Technique: inkjet print on canvas
Reconstruction: based on historical, epigraphic and numismatic sources
Installation: supplied with a wooden support so it can easily be hung on the wall
Acrylic product specifications
Product: Historical-philological standard
Material: glossy print on acrylic
Size: 40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 in)
Technique: high-definition reproduction with brilliant rendering
Reconstruction: based on historical, epigraphic and numismatic sources
Installation: supplied with a hook so it can easily be hung on the wall
Framed canvas product specifications
Product: Historical-philological standard
Material: print on painter's canvas
Size: 40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 in)
Technique: inkjet print on painter's canvas
Frame: hand-carved walnut wood
Reconstruction: based on historical, epigraphic and numismatic sources
