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The Missing Weapons at Carlisle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2010

M.P. Speidel
M.P. Speidel
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University of Hawaii, speidel@hawaii.edu
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New interpretations are suggested for two terms in Docilis' letter found on a wooden tablet from Carlisle and published in Britannia 29 (1998), 34–84, no. 16 (= AE 1998, 839). Lanciarius does not refer to all the horsemen of ala I Gallorum, but only to those equipped with lancea-spears and subarmales are not weapons but felt-padded, rainproof doublets worn under the armour.

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Roman armyRoman writing-tabletCarlisleRoman weaponsRoman armour

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Britannia , Volume 38 , November 2007 , pp. 237 - 239
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Copyright © M.P. Speidel 2007. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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