04-03-2009, 10:30 PM
Quote:This aimed at Robert really, but there may be somone else here who knows this as well.Ah, that's not an easy one. As posted above, if we can agree that the Strategicon describes plumbatae (which I think it does), then we can easily determine that they were used into the 7th century. No matter what I think of Taxarchias Kolias' reconstruction of the plumbata, he's probably right when he signals that by the early 10th-c. Taktika of the emperor Leon the word ??????????????? describes a mace. So somewhere inbetween the throwing weapon becomes a different sort of weapon.
What is the current terminus ante quem for the plumbata?
Thanks in advance.
Crispvs
But confirming that from the archaeological record won't be easy.
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)