Uno scudo bilabato da Bisenzio?

This paper focuses on a elliptical bronze sheet from Paolozzi’s Collection in National Museum of Chiusi (SI). Some technical features and the comparisons with archaeological finds from Norchia and Veii (Casal del Fosso, tomb 1036) suggest that this artifact may be a junction element of a double shield (a specific type of schield, called by Latin sources “ancile”). The provenance is also hypothetical: the kind of decorative pattern recalls bronze productions of VIII century b.C. from Bisenzio (or Vulci), where Paolozzi carried out some archaeological investigations beetween 1884 and 1885.