- Source: Dolabra
The dolabra is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool (mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics. In the 1st century CE, at the Siege of Augustodunum Haeduorum, armoured Gallic gladiators were defeated by legionaries wielding dolabrae.
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo said, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe".
See also
Digging stick
Pulaski
Citations
General and cited references
Adrian Goldsworthy, The Complete Roman Army.
Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009.
External links
Media related to Dolabra at Wikimedia Commons
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Dolabra
- Pulaski (tool)
- Roman military personal equipment
- Entrenching tool
- Dolabra (fungus)
- Mattock
- Mining in ancient Rome
- Sarcina
- Maiestas angustisecta
- Doloire
