Talk:Mars' Ancile Buckler Shield/@comment-69.243.226.186-20121212213535/@comment-5782071-20121213223457

According to Wikipedia, the Ancile fell from heaven, and the nymph Egeria ordered 11 others so that when they were attemted to be stolen, "like Ulysses did the Palladium", they wouldn't be able to take the real Ancile. And an illustration also from Wikipedia shows the shield looks like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common/7/76/Ancile%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png