07-02-2008, 11:45 PM
Hi Greg,
Number of plumbatae in my database: 121 (38 sold through eBay, etc.)
Length: 75.
Weight: 21 (5 only the point)
Type of head: 70
Fixing: 5 or so. Almost none have been X-rayed.
Place of origin: about 90. The eBay ones are of course all unknown.
Dating: only 20 have a date attached to them, most dating attempts are guesses.
I also include shaft (smooth or torqued), shaft form (round or square), and weight shape (oval or square) in my plumbatae table.
Quote: Kervenec is back to Serbia to dig a roman site and we exchanged by mail but when he will come back, I will ask him.If you could, please! Serbia should yield so much more plumbatae..
Quote:About databases, I initially wanted to make a board with length, weight, type of head, type of fixing, place and datation. My aim was to see if we could note some evolution or exceptionnal pieces, hiding perhaps another way of use. Do you think it's possible ?Hardly. Most publications give very few hard data. Types or evolution of types are therefore extremely hard to establish.
Number of plumbatae in my database: 121 (38 sold through eBay, etc.)
Length: 75.
Weight: 21 (5 only the point)
Type of head: 70
Fixing: 5 or so. Almost none have been X-rayed.
Place of origin: about 90. The eBay ones are of course all unknown.
Dating: only 20 have a date attached to them, most dating attempts are guesses.
I also include shaft (smooth or torqued), shaft form (round or square), and weight shape (oval or square) in my plumbatae table.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)