Bronze spear standard or signum in the shape of a hand manus with rings and bracelets. Symbol of a cohort or squad within a Roman legion. In the collection of Marquis Alessandro Gregorio Capponi. Hasta Militaris. Ex aere. Copperplate engraving from Francesco Valesio, Antonio Gori and Ridolfino Venuti’s Academia Etrusca, Museum Cortonense in quo Vetera Monumenta, (Etruscan Academy or Museum of Cortona), Faustus Amideus, Rome, 1750.

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