Buccinator or hornplayer in the Roman army, ancient Rome. He wears a lion-skin headdress, tunic, sagulum gregale or short trousers and sandals. He blows the buccina and is armed with gladius sword and pilum spear. A broken obelisk behind. Buccinator Romain. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by L. Labrousse, artist of Bordeaux, under the direction of Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his L’antique Rome, ou description historique et pittoresque, Ancient Rome, or historical and picturesque description, Chez Deroy, Paris, 1796.

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