Armed Batavians: Use and Significance of Weaponry and Horse Gear from Non-military Contexts in the Rhine Delta (50 BC to AD 450)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 Introducing a considerable body of unpublished data, as well as offering a perspective on daily life in the northern frontier of the Roman Empire, this volume is a valuable addition to Roman military and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. |
Conteúdo
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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1st century 2nd and 3rd 3rd centuries archaeological assemblage auxiliary baldric Batavian bronze buckle burial cavalry cemetery cingulum civilian cult place dagger decorative fittings deposited Deschler-Erb ditch documented eastern Rhine delta Empel examples excavations fastener frontier Germania Germania inferior gladius Haalebos horse gear horse gear components horse gear finds inscriptions Klumbach Künzl La Tène large number late Roman legionary Lower Rhine Mainz Mainz type material Meuse Meuse Waal military equipment niello Nijmegen non-military contexts objects ofthe Oldenstein openwork oppidum Batavorum peltate pendants phalera pilum plate armour pre-Flavian probably research region ritual river Roman army Roman period Romeinse Römische römischen round rural settlement rural scabbard scale armour settlement rural settlement shield boss soldiers spatha spearheads specific strap fitting hg strap junction strap terminals sword symbols Tène Ulpia Noviomagus urban centre variant veterans Waal 10 km weapon graves weaponry and horse Wijchen Wijk Wijk bij Duurstede