Roman Imperial Artillery : Outranging the Enemies of the Empire.

Fully revised and expanded for a new Third Edition, this book traces the Greek origins of torsion catapults, describes the machines used from the time of Sulla and Caesar, the Roman improvements in their design and power, and their importance in the defence of the Roman Empire.

Bibliografske podrobnosti
Glavni avtor:	Wilkins, Alan
Format:	Licensed eBooks
Jezik:	angleščina
Izdano:	Oxford : Archaeopress, 2024.
Izdaja:	3rd ed.
Serija:	Archaeopress Roman Archaeology Series.
Online dostop:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.14996061

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
List of Figures
Figure 161
The Solignac hunting relief
Figure 160
The fragmentary Roman hunting relief from St Marcel
Figure 159
A battery of twelve bolt-shooting and one stone-throwing catapults, June 2013
Figure 158
Tom Feeley's inswinging version in three positions (photographs: Mark Hatch)
Figure 157
Tom Feeley's quarter-scale inward swinging Hatra catapult
Figure 156
Hatra inswinging designs: (left) Aitor Iriarte's two versions of the Hatra catapult. (right) Mike Lewis' inswinging cheiroballistra.
Figure 155
Mike Lewis' models
Figure 154
Martin McAree's graphs of the relative performances of inswinger and outswinger
Figure 153
The Morgan-Wilkins outward swinging Hatra catapult
Figure 152
The author's suggested spring-frame design of the Hatra catapult. The bronze washers. (photographs: Diewulf Baatz)
Figure 151
Baatz's diagram of the Hatra frame
Figure 150
Mosul Museum's strange reconstruction of the Hatra catapult (photograph: Mary Desbruslais)
Figure 149
Excavation photo of the Hatra catapult (photograph: W.I. Al-Salihi, Directorate-General of Antiquities, Baghdad.)
Figure 148
The Traction trebuchet (Wikipedia Commons)
Figure 147
The Morgan-Wilkins onager
Figure 146
Two modern reconstructions of the onager
Figure 145
Ms diagram of a one-arm stone-thrower on a siege tower
Figure 144. High Rochester ballistaria inscription (after Richmond).
Figure 143
A two librae Vitruvian ballista being assembled by a team of legionaries (photograph: the Roman Military Research Society)
Figure 142
The BBC one talent ballista launching the final ball (photograph: Margery Wilkins)
Figure 141
'Troops' passing through the centre gateway, thirteen abreast. (photograph: John Reid)
Figure 140
Trajan's Column Scene LXVI. An arch strut bolt-shooter on a log emplacement
Figure 139. The 2015 excavations on Burnswark Hill
Figure 138
Carol standing in the South Camp's deep recut ditch west of the centre gateway
Figure 137
Carol van Driel-Murray at the centre one of the Three Brethren catapult mounds
Figure 136
Excavation trenches 1-5 and the distribution of lead signals from 2013 to 2017
Figure 135
Groups of lead sling bullets found in Trench 5 of the 2016 excavations and in the North Camp
Figure 134
The Three Brethren and the 2016 trenches behind the rampart
Figure 133
Burnswark missiles (photograph: John Reid)
Figure 132
Burnswark sling bullets, arrowheads and a Trajan's Column stone thrower and slinger
Figure 131
Figure 130
The 2016 Trench 4 cut into the back of the South Camp's north west rampart (photograph: Andrew Nicholson)

Roman Imperial Artillery : Outranging the Enemies of the Empire.

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