Roman Republican Sieges : Operations in Gaul and Hispania.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dobson, Mike
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bicester : Archaeopress, 2026.
Subjects:	Siege warfare > Rome > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Information
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Figure 0.1. The site of the Celtiberian city of Numantia on La Muela hill by the modern village of Garray, on the left, viewed from the siege camp of Dehesilla to the south-west of the city. The river Duero runs between the city and the camp, from left to
Figure 0.2. The location of the camps at Renieblas, on the nearby tree-covered La Gran Atalaya hill to the north-east of the village (see Figures 4.8, 4.12). (photo: author, 2016)
Figure 0.3. A seated Adolf Schulten at his excavations of the camps at Castillejo, Numantia, during a visit by the family of the local aristocrat Aurelio González de Gregorio and all being amused by the family's dog. One of Schulten's assistants, Harald H
Figure 0.4. Schulten's excavations at the camp of Peña Redonda, Numantia, looking towards the hill of Numantia itself, where the modern siege memorials and the Spanish excavation commission's hut to their right can be seen in the centre of the dark skylin
Chapter 1. A professional amateur militia: the late-Republican army
Figure 1.2. The manipular legion in battle. Open-order velites at the front, with swarms/clouds of maniples of hastati behind, then similarly swarming principes, with ordered reserve maniples of triarii at the rear. (artist: SeungJung Kim
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Figure 1.3. The northern area of Renieblas, camp III. Row K = legionary cavalry
A = triarii
B = principes
C = hastati
D = allied cavalry
E = allied infantry. (illustration: author
after Schulten 1929, Plan IV
Dobson 2008, Figures 55, 57, 59).
Figure 1.4. Trajan's Column, showing (left) camp defences under construction and (right) completed camp with different types of tent inside. (Cichorius 1896, Bild LX, scenes 145-147, Tafel XLII)
Figure 1.5. Reconstruction of the Polybian manipular double-consular camp. (illustration: author
revision of Dobson 2008, Figure 23)
Figure 1.6. Reconstruction of a leather Roman army tent, with equipment spread around and wood fire in front. Set in the early Imperial period, but the form of tent continued from the Republic. (photo: author, 2010 in Exeter)
Figure 1.7. Reconstructions of Roman tented accommodation. A) Tent. B) Tent surrounded by low stone walls. C) Tent surrounded by low stone walls and thatched. (illustration: author
tent reconstruction after van Driel-Murray 1991, Figure 70.4
revision of
Figure 1.8. Numantia, Castillejo camp, structure 4, area d. Remains which could be a low wall constructed around a tent, with six stone plinths around the inside of the walls, possibly for tent poles. Upper: Ernst Fabricius, one of Schulten's collaborator