Roman Emperor Caesar Imago Image gold standard sign signa signifer in cold cast

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Historically, the image on the Roman Emperor on the battle field meant that his presence was there. Thus a Roman Emperor could claim victory over an enemy or his province even though he was not there and then could take the name of the defeated as a title like the Roman Emperor Domitian took Germanicus as a title although he never went to
Germania
.  There were several names like Africanus, Germanicus, Britannicus and Parthicus used by Roman emperors just to name four.  Other Roman Emperors might visit the defeated province after the battle and stay a week there like Claudius and his Britannicus title.  Still other Roman emperors might even actually fight in person but may not be physically present at every single battle like Trajan and his Parthicus title.  When George Patton defeated Rommel's famous Africa Korp at
El Guettar in North Africa, Patton found out afterwards that Rommel had left north Africa just before the engagement.  Although this was disappointing for Patton, there is little doubt that Rommel's Africa Korp fought using strategy's laid out by Rommel before he left.  So did Patton defeat Rommel?  It depends on how you look at it.  When Caesar was outnumbered and besieged in Alexandria by an Egyptian army, another Roman army coming from Armenia defeated them.  Was this a victory by Caesar?  It was his strategy as he had ordered the Armenian Roman Army to go to Egypt even before he left Greece to chase after Pompey.
This Roman Emperor Caesar Imago or Image is done in cold cast but I used a gold atomized powder along with a gold foil background to make this particular imago standard around 26 years ago.  It was the first of these types that I did with great success.  My first one was done in 1980 and is rather sad.  This one however was influenced by the round disk Imago standards of both Claudius, Caligula and a semi round one of nero that were found with the one of Claudius showing just the facing head like mine.  The Emperor and Imperial family are seen on many Roman standards like this one being carried by the Praetorian Guard as well on Trajan's column etc.  A praetorian grave stelae outside of Rome along the Appian way was however my biggest influence.  As mentioned above, this imago standard was made by me some 26 years ago but on top of that it was also the first one that I ever made of this type of round disk Imago Roman standard.  You can mount it to your own standard or use it to decorate your Roman man cave.  It is six inches across with the raised relief work being 3 1/2 inches high.
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