Dolabra
Ancient Roman pickaxe-like tool
The dolabra[1] 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.[2]
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo said, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe".[3]
See also
- Digging stick
- Pulaski
Bibliography
- Adrian Goldsworthy, The Complete Roman Army
- Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dolabra.
- ^ William, Smith (1890). "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities". Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University. Archived from the original on 2016-05-14. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
- ^ Cowan, Ross (Nov 2021). "Tales of the Axe". Ancient Warfare Magazine. 15/2: 9.
- ^ Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009. Print.
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