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Excavations at Dura-Europos, 1928-1937. Final report VII, The arms and armour and other military equipment /
"This is a paperback reprint of the first edition, which appeared in 2004, published by British Museum Press. The ancient city of Dura-Europos, destroyed by a Sasanian Persian siege in the AD 250s, was an important regional centre of commerce, government and military control under the Seleucid,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK :
Oxbow Books,
2010.
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| Edición: | Paperback edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Summaries in English, French, German and Arabic
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Part 1: Discovery and context. The assemblage and its potential; Aims of the present research; Previous work and publications; Methodology; Organization of the Report; Notes on illustrations, conventions and terminology; The historical and geographical context; Deposition, recovery, recording and preservation; Preparations for a siege, and the subsequent fighting; Supplementary sources for soldiers and warfare at Dura: visual representations
- Part 2: The assemblage. Military dress and horse harness; Catalogue: Fittings from military dress and horse harness; Helmets and head protection; Catalogue: Helmets and head protection; Armour; Catalogue: Armour; Edged weapons; Catalogue: Edged weapons; Shields; Catalogue: Shields; Shafted weapons; Catalogue: Shafted weapons; Bows, arrows and archery tackle; Catalogue: Bows, arrows and archery tackle; Torsion artillery; Catalogue: Catapult ammunition
- Part 3: Discussion. Deposition and transformations of the material; Composition and attribution of the assemblage; Cultural distinctiveness, interaction, convergence and identity in martial material culture; Manufacture, supply, use and repair of equipment at Dura; Evidence for the use of equipment in combat; Reconstructing the appearance of third-century Roman soldiers at Dura; Conclusion and prospect; Future research; Afterword; Bibliography; Tables; Concordances and indices; Concordance of known provenances and catalogue numbers; Concordance of museum locations and accession numbers with catalogue numbers.