Standard of 16th Legion Flavia Firma - Pegasus Vexillum of The Steadfast Flavian Sixteenth Legion
by Serge Averbukh
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Standard of 16th Legion Flavia Firma - Pegasus Vexillum of The Steadfast Flavian Sixteenth Legion
Artist
Serge Averbukh
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Digital Art - Digital Painting
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Introducing ‘Rome’ Collection by Serge Averbukh, showcasing new media paintings of various artifacts and symbols of ancient Rome. Here you will find pieces featuring Standard of the 16th Legion Flavia Firma - Pegasus Vexillum of The Steadfast Flavian Sixteenth Legion (Legio sexta decima Flavia firma).
Legio sexta decima Flavia firma ("Steadfast Flavian Sixteenth Legion") was a legion of the Imperial Roman army. The legion was created by Emperor Vespasian in 70 from the remains of the XVI Gallica (which had surrendered in the Batavian rebellion). The unit still existed in the 4th century, when it guarded the Euphrates border and camped in Sura (Syria). The emblem of the legion was a Pegasus, although earlier studies assumed it to have been a lion.
Vespasian was reorganizing the frontier along the Euphrates (for example, the old kingdom of Commagene was annexed), and the new legion was for some time stationed at Satala, on the Upper Euphrates, in the northeast of Cappadocia. It shared this section of the frontier, opposite Armenia, with XII Fulminata. There is hardly any evidence for this period in the legion's history.
The Sixteenth took part in the emperor Trajan's war against the Parthian empire (114-117), and was redeployed at Samosata by Trajan's successor Hadrian (117-138). It was a quiet period and it comes as no surprise to find only evidence for civil activities, like the building of a tunnel near Seleucia in Syria.
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