The Excavations at Dura-Europos conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters 1928 to 1937. Final Report VII : the Arms and Armour and other Military Equipment

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; Summaries in English, French, German and Arabic; Acknowledgements; Preface; Plates; Part 1: Discovery and context; The assemblage and its potential; Aims of the present research; Previous work and publications; Methodolog...

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Main Author: James, Simon (Author)
Document Type: Online Resource Book
Language:English
Published: Havertown : Oxbow Books , 2009
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Dura-Europos (Extinct city) > Catalogs
Online Access:http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/jstor-ebooks-altertum/www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1cfr88p
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: Excavations at Dura-Europos conducted by Yale University and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters 1928 to 1937. Final Report VII : The Arms and Armour and other Military Equipment
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520 |a Deposition and transformations of the materialComposition 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. 
520 |a Index of materials of manufacture and embellishmentIndex of references to catalogued items; General index. 
520 |a Supplementary sources for soldiers and warfare at Dura: visual representationsPart 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. 
520 |a 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, Parthian and Roman empires. During excavations in the 1920s and 1930s it became famous for finds such as a painted synagogue and early Christian chapel. Not the least spectacular of the discoveries in this 'Pompeii of the Syrian Desert' were the remains of the town's garrisons and siegeworks and massive 
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