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another Ancient Warfare magazine podcast again, and this time we're

discussing issue 3-6 titled Carnix, Cornyn SIGNA, battlefield communications, a very wide-ranging

topic, which showed in our articles, really, with an introduction that dealt with a necessity

of having both oral and visual signals on a noisy and dusty ancient

battlefield supported by the fifth century Roman author Vagedius. Then we had an article

of source about the actual visual sources and archaeological sources for Roman standards,

of which really very few survive as an item.

But some are discussed there.

And then we went back into the Iron Age discussing Spanish standards and music, forward into Roman brass

instruments, back and east to Persian standards, which showed some wonderful reconstructions

by Igor Ziz of Persian standard bearers.

Back into the Roman era with the cult of the Roman

standards, these holy items were treated in a very special way, and Duncan Campbell gave

an interesting overview of that topic. Then we went into the later empire where Raphael Damato

produced a couple of reconstructions of Justinians standard bears in Cigna in the early 7th century AD.

This is the most recent chronologically article we've ever had.

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