/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3371085
It is a standard he is wielding, and it is to mock the Romans in their defeat by Hannibal.

The bottom portion is an eagle, and you can get a better look at it in this angle. Really nice statue on the whole.

I don't know whose standard that represented in particular (I'm not well versed on it), but if it is a leaders than that is the equivalent to bitch slapping that leader in the face if you captured it. The original game of Capture the Flag.

The British had similar standards that was the Kings Standard and was to never fall. Napoleon had his standards with eagles as well.