The Imago
-The imago standard was a gold portrait of the emperor's head. It showed the legion's loyalty.
-The bearer of this standard was called the imaginifer. -This standard shows how the emperor made himself an object of worship, almost an idol, to his people. The standards were treated with the utmost respect and were guarded and taken care of as if they belonged to the gods, and Roman emperors often tried to show themselves in the most divine way possible. |