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Corrigenda

Corrigenda

This is a list of mistakes that have been noted in ed. 2 of Roman Military Equipment. If you know of any more, please report them to mcbishop@pobox.com.

p. xiii col 3 ‘149. I a (SVK)’ should read ‘149. Iža (SVK)’ [added 16.10.06]

p. 5 para 3 line 6 ‘equiprnent equipment’ should read ‘equipment’ [added 11.5.06 with thanks to GA]

p. 8 para 3 line 3 ‘human torm’ should read ‘human form’ [added 11.5.06 with thanks to GA]

p. 21 n. 46 ‘Delbruck 1933’ should read ‘Delbrück 1933’

p. 43 para 7 line 3 ‘with an augur’ should read ‘with an auger’ [added 29.9.06 with thanks to SJ]

p. 88 Fig. 122 Item No. 8 appears in the caption but is absent from the illustration [added 27.1.09 with thanks to GP]

p. 131 Fig. 76 ‘Ulpius Tertius’ should read ‘Adiutor’ [added 29.8.06 with thanks to JO and MM]

p. 142 para 5 line 13 ‘(Plate 2b)’ should read ‘(Plate 2c)’ [added 27.1.09 with thanks to GP]

p. 156 Fig. 97 ‘2 Stabu; 3 Hromowka’ should read ‘2 Hromowka; 3 Stabu’ [added 29.6.06 with thanks to H]

p. 181 ’15-20 mm thick’ should read ‘1.5-2.0 mm thick’ [added 5.8.06 thanks to FW]

p. 181 ‘The overall thickness was 50mm’ should read ‘The overall thickness was 5 mm’ [added 5.8.06 thanks to FW]

pp. 218-19 There are two Figure 137s. [added 24.1.07]

p. 294 ‘Iriate, A., Gil, E.’ etc should read ‘Iriarte, A., Gil, E.’ etc [added 20.5.06 with thanks to RV]

p. 305 ‘Snodgrass, A. 1999: Arms and Armour of the Greeks, Batimore’ should read ‘Snodgrass, A. 1999: Arms and Armour of the Greeks, Baltimore’ [added 7.9.06]

p. 310 ‘Berkasovo 1 helmet’ should read ‘Berkasovo-type helmet from Budapest’ [added 6.5.06 with thanks to HvG]

p. 318 ‘Ors¸ova’ should read ‘Orşova’ [added 28.4.06]

p. 319 In page references for ‘Sarmatians’ add 192 and 272 [added 27.1.09 with thanks to GP]

Plate 2e ‘Berkasovo’ should read ‘Budapest’ [added 6.5.06 with thanks to HvG]

 

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Gallery Samples

Curved rectangular shield umbo with a green patina and with a hemispherical boss in the centre for the hand grip.
Curved, rectangular copper-alloy shield boss with six of eight domed shield nails in situ. Image: P. Gross
Shield boss
Soldiers with oval, coloured shields (red, white, and blue) and similarly coloured leggings.
Crossing the Red Sea fresco from the synagogue at Dura-Europos depicting soldiers with multi-coloured shields lined up before standard-bearers with vexilla. Image: Wikimedia Commons
Fresco
Fragmentary ferrous back plate attached to scales, found in the Millennium excavations at Carlisle. The ferrous components are corroded brownish orange and the copper-alloy examples are mid-green.
Ferrous back plate and scales from lorica squamata from Carlisle (GBR). The mostly ferrous scales are interspersed with copper alloy scales. Image: scrappy annie (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Scale armour
A ferrous cavalry helmet with partially surviving bronze sheathing includes horizontal trilobate protrusions above the brow.
Ferrous cavalry helmet with copper-alloy (probably brass) embossed and incised sheathing (most of it missing over the bowl). The cheek piece may not be original (or may be a clumsy repair). A plume tube survives on the left-hand side just above the ear. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (CC0 1.0)
Cavalry helmet
Brass-coloured belt plate with four empty rivet holes, one in each corner.
Copper-alloy belt plate from Chichester, hinged for a buckle or suspension frog. Image: MCB
Belt plate
Silvered phalera junction with three strap loops and a trifid pendant.
Three-way strap junction from harness found at Doorwerth. Three junction loops and a trefoil pendant are hinged to loops on the rear face of the phalera. Brass with silver foil soldered on the front face and with niello inlay depicting stylised vine leaves and grapes. Image: National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden (CC0 1.0)
Phalera junction
To the top is a heavily corroded ferrous Antonine dagger blade and tang with part of the handle adhering, whilst below it is the ferrous frame scabbard for the weapon, also corroded.
Dagger and scabbard of the Antonine form from Stillfried (AT). Part of the handle survives on the blade and tang. Image: Wolfgang Sauber
Dagger and scabbard
A ferrous helmet with broad neck guard, cheek pieces, and brow guard.
Ferrous Weisenau (Imperial-Gallic)-type helmet. Image: MCB
Helmet
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