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Arms and armour of the Imperial Roman soldier : from Marius to Commodus, 112 BC-AD 192 / Raffaele D'Amato ; introduction, colour paintings and line drawings by Graham Sumner.

Title
Arms and armour of the Imperial Roman soldier : from Marius to Commodus, 112 BC-AD 192 / Raffaele D'Amato ; introduction, colour paintings and line drawings by Graham Sumner.
Author
D'Amato, Raffaele
Publication
London : Frontline, 2009.

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Description
xiv, 290 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.
Summary
Presents information and a collection of photographs of armor, weapons, and military equipment from ancient Rome.
Subject
  • Weapons, Ancient > Rome
  • Armor, Ancient > Rome
  • Armee
  • Bewehrung
  • Kriegswaffe
  • Rome > Equipment
  • Rome > Military antiquities
  • Rome > History, Military
  • Römisches Reich
Genre/Form
  • Military history
  • Military history.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Foreword / Giorgio Ravegnani -- Introduction . Graham Sumner -- One: From Marius to Augustus 112-30 BC (Sources and historical outline ; Military organisation ; Weaponry ; Auxiliary troop equipment: bow and arrows, slingers ; Special equipment and rank symbols, standards, musical instruments and military decorations; Cavalry equipment: The man ; Cavalry equipment: The horse ; Clothing ; Naval equipment)
  • Two: The Roman Empire in the age of expansion, 30 BC -- AD 192 (Sources and historical outline ; Military organisation ; Weaponry ; Auxilia, Numeri and Cohortes eqitatatae ; Signa militaria and the equipment of standard bearers ; Medical corps, special equipment, musicians, rank symbols and military decorations ; Special equipment ; Cavalry equipment: The man ; Cavalry equipment: The horse ; The hyppika gymnasia ; The heavy cavalry: the first Contrafractarii ; The Imperial Guard and Urbaniciani and Vigiles ; Clothing ; Naval equipment) -- Conmclusion -- Appendix: Further details of milites, equites and weapons from the Arausius (Orange) Arch)
ISBN
  • 9781848325128
  • 1848325126
LCCN
^^2010291776
OCLC
295000975
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library