ROMAN LEGION FLAG, SPQR, ROME, LEG VI FERRATA ROMAN LEGION FLAG, SPQR, ROME, LEG VI FERRATA Start Price USD 19.00 Current Price USD 19.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 35.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, August 21, 2008 End Time Thursday, August 28, 2008 Location peabody, MA See more about 'ROMAN LEGION FLAG, SPQR, ROME, LEG VI FERRATA' Description This is a ROMAN LEGION FLAG. (Legion Standard) It is made out of heavy red linen like cloth and it has gold fringes on the bottom. .  This is hand made. The print is hand painted with gold fabric paint. It has a gold braided rope on top with a wood dowl.  The flag is 20" x 26". It is made to look like it did 2000 years ago so your not going to see machine precision.  These flags are not made by a machine, they are made to order and made by me only, so give me a little time. I do not have lots of them hanging around.   Please visit my web site at,  http://romanempirestore.com/index.html   Legio VI Ferrata Julius Caesar Legio VI Ferrata: one of the Roman legions. Its name means 'ironclad', which is probably a reference to the suits of armor. This legion was recruited in 52 BCE by Julius Caesar in Gallia Cisalpina, and saw its first action during the campaign against the Gallic leader Vercingetorix, who was besieged at Alesia (text). Later, it was stationed during the winter at Châlons-sur-Saône or Mâcon. In 51, the ironclads fought against the Carnutes of the lower Loire, and were sent to Orléans. During the civil war between Caesar and his fellow-triumvir and Pompey the Great, the Sixth was the most mobile of all units. It fought in Hispania in the battle of Ilerda (summer 49), returned to the east, and served at Dyrrhachium in the first months of 48. It was present in the battle of Pharsalus (9 August 48), accompanied Caesar to Alexandria (48/47), and decided the battle of Zela (2 August 47) in Pontus. After these campaigns, in which the Sixth suffered heavily, the dictator sent it sent back to Italy, from where veterans were settled at Arles (pictures), which was called Colonia Iulia Paterna Arelatensium Sextanorum, "the ancestral Julian colony of Arles of the soldiers of the Sixth". However, the legion was present at Munda (17 March 45).  Coin of VI Ferrata by Marc Antony  After Caesar's violent death, the legion was reconstituted by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, who handed it over to Mark Antony (43). After it had fought against Brutus and Cassius in the battle of Philippi (42), a new colony was formed for veterans who wanted to retire, at Benevento in Italy. Other soldiers were taken to the east by Mark Antony, where they were stationed in Judaea, after they had helped king Herod the Great gain his throne (37).                       Place a Bid!