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<p>[QUOTE="Trebellianus, post: 3594474, member: 91569"]Yeah, the legends complicate these intriguingly. Taken in isolation, "VIRTVS MILITVM" naturally suggests a military structure; and "PROVIDENTIAE" just as naturally suggests protective city walls, newly-built or refurbished by the foresight and good sense of the emperor (e.g. Aurelian putting nice big new walls around Rome, etc.). </p><p><br /></p><p>And yet we see some flexibility in the uh, semiotics: the isometric camp with the tetrarchs in front of it is mainly a "VIRTVS" scene, but it evidently wasn't regarded as an unsuitable illustration of "PROVIDENTIAE". Meanwhile the Constantinian ones go in the other direction, those gates are mostly depictions of "PROVIDENTIAE" but occasionally they show "VIRTVS". I'd almost be inclined to think the gates are meant to just represent the emperor's military virtues in the most generic sense possible. The ambiguity re what structure is depicted could well have been intentional, perhaps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Trebellianus, post: 3594474, member: 91569"]Yeah, the legends complicate these intriguingly. Taken in isolation, "VIRTVS MILITVM" naturally suggests a military structure; and "PROVIDENTIAE" just as naturally suggests protective city walls, newly-built or refurbished by the foresight and good sense of the emperor (e.g. Aurelian putting nice big new walls around Rome, etc.). And yet we see some flexibility in the uh, semiotics: the isometric camp with the tetrarchs in front of it is mainly a "VIRTVS" scene, but it evidently wasn't regarded as an unsuitable illustration of "PROVIDENTIAE". Meanwhile the Constantinian ones go in the other direction, those gates are mostly depictions of "PROVIDENTIAE" but occasionally they show "VIRTVS". I'd almost be inclined to think the gates are meant to just represent the emperor's military virtues in the most generic sense possible. The ambiguity re what structure is depicted could well have been intentional, perhaps.[/QUOTE]
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