10-23-2003, 01:18 PM
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Found these at: www.romanofficer.com/permcol.html<br>
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I don't know if you already know them...<br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/permcol11.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/permcol11-2.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
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ROMAN LEGIONARY PLUMBATA<br>
Material: Iron and Clay<br>
Era: 3rd to 5th Century AD<br>
Culture: Roman<br>
Style: Roman Provincial<br>
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from California and an Antiquities Dealer from the Netherlands<br>
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Text: these two Plumbata (lead-weighted hand thrown dart) tops are rather rare, the top plumbata body is weighted with a mixture of clay and something else? The bottom plumbata body is made of lead. Plumbata had more range than any other hand-thrown missile, including the spear and javelin.<br>
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Private Collection of David Xavier Kenney<br>
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Valete,<br>
Titus Sabatinus Aquilius<br>
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Found these at: www.romanofficer.com/permcol.html<br>
<br>
I don't know if you already know them...<br>
<br>
<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/permcol11.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
<br>
<img src="http://users.libero.it/sabsab/titus/permcol11-2.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
<br>
ROMAN LEGIONARY PLUMBATA<br>
Material: Iron and Clay<br>
Era: 3rd to 5th Century AD<br>
Culture: Roman<br>
Style: Roman Provincial<br>
Origin: An Antiquities Dealer from California and an Antiquities Dealer from the Netherlands<br>
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Text: these two Plumbata (lead-weighted hand thrown dart) tops are rather rare, the top plumbata body is weighted with a mixture of clay and something else? The bottom plumbata body is made of lead. Plumbata had more range than any other hand-thrown missile, including the spear and javelin.<br>
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Private Collection of David Xavier Kenney<br>
<br>
Valete,<br>
Titus Sabatinus Aquilius<br>
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<p></p><i></i>
TITVS/Daniele Sabatini
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10