Standard-bearer

A standard-bearer is a person (soldier or civilian) who bears an emblem called an ensign or standard, i.e. either a type of flag or an inflexible but mobile image, which is used (an often honored) as a formal, visual symbol of a state, prince, military unit, etc.

In antiquity

Pre-hellenistic

• pharaonic nome-emblems (many also the name of such province)

Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine

• Aetos
• Aquilifer (Aquila)
• Bandifer (Bandum)
• Discens aquilifer(or)um, - signiferorum : trainee
• Draconarius (Draco, 'dragon) - one of them could be selected Optio Draconarius; ... Bearcus Draconarius ...
• Imiginifer (Imago) ?5 original images : Aper = boar, Equus = horse, Minotaur(us), ?Tabula ansata : winged boar, Taurus = bull ...
• Ornithoboros
• Semaforus < Semaphoros (Semion?)
• Signifer (Signum) - one of them could be selected as Signifer princeps
• Tablifer - guards cavalry (?Tabula ansata : winged boar)
• Vexillifer (Vexillum)

Cfr. also :

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• Adiutor signorum
• Aedes
• Antesignanus
• Aquilae natalis
• Deposita ad signa
• Labarum
• Postsignanus
• Vexillatio