The salute became popularized in the 18th and 19th centuries in artworks and theatre performances, showing Romans saluting as a way of greeting each other ...

which is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, is one of the few surviving examples of a Roman "scutum," the most popular shield type from the fourth century B.C. to the third ...

Experts at Vindolanda, near Hexham, in Northumberland, believe they are "probably the only known surviving examples from the Roman period". Dr Andrew Birley, Vindolanda Trust director of ...