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English: Vexillum of the Roman Empire.
Latina: Vexillum Romanum.
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Source The vexillum of the Roman Empire was a red banner with the letters SPQR in Gold surrounded by a gold wreath hung on a military standard topped by a Roman eagle or an image of the goddess Victoria made of silver or bronze.[1][2][3][4]
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  1. ↑ Modern reconstructed vexillum of the Roman Empire with the goddess Victoria above a red banner with the letters SPQR in gold:[dead link]
  2. ↑ Website for Imperial Roman re-enactors shows modern reconstructions of Roman Vexilla:[dead link]
  3. ↑ Roman Standards shown from an illustration in “Signa Militaria", by James Yates (in the public domain) in the book A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (pp. 1044–1046):
  4. ↑ Roman Standard with an Aquila (the Roman Eagle) without the red vexillum with the letters SPQR in gold (Source=John J. Anderson A School History of England (New York: Effingham Maynard & Co., 1889):

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