Armed Batavians: Use and Significance of Weaponry and Horse Gear from Non-military Contexts in the Rhine Delta (50 BC to AD 450)

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Amsterdam University Press, 2007 - 407 páginas
Using a life-cycle model for Roman soldiers, Johan Nicolay interprets the large quantity of first-century finds as personal memorabilia brought home by ex-soldiers as a reminder of their twenty-five years of service and a symbol of their newly-acquired veteran status. Underpinning Nicolay’s research is an extensive inventory of militaria from urban centers, rural settlements, rivers, and graves—presented in nearly one hundred individual color plates. Introducing a considerable body of unpublished data, as well as offering a perspective on daily life in the northern frontier of the Roman Empire, this volume is a valuable addition to Roman military and material history.
 

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3 An analysis of the finds at the regional and site level
2-40
4 Production and symbolic imagery
2-104
5 Military equipment and the life cycle of a Roman soldier
157
6 Nonmilitary use of weaponry and horse gear in urban and rural settlements
207
7 Warriors soldiers and civilians Use and significance of weaponryand horse gear in a changing sociopolitical context
237
Abbreviations
259
Bibliography
260
Appendix 1
287
Appendix 2
295
Appendix 31
299
Appendix 32
301
Appendix 33
302
Appendix 34
303
Appendix 4
305
About the plates and the catalogue
311
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Johan Nicolay is a researcher at the Groningen Institute of Archaeology at the University of Groningen.

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