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Roy Davies\' PhD Thesis - D B Campbell - 10-16-2013
I just noticed that Roy Davies' wonderfully ground-breaking 1967 PhD thesis has finally been made available online from Durham University eTheses. The content may be familiar to most, from the series of journal articles that it spawned from 1966 to 1978 (Davies died in 1977), some of which appeared in the 1989 collected volume (reviewed here). But it's nice to finally see the original!
Roy Davies\' PhD Thesis - Epictetus - 10-16-2013
Well, I only spent 30 seconds glancing through it and already learned something new. I didn't realise that legionaries carried a sickle to harvest crops as part of their normal equipment! (Found on page 360, referenced by Josephus, apparently.)
Roy Davies\' PhD Thesis - Quintus Claudius Scaevola - 10-16-2013
I don't suppose there's a picture or two floating around somewhere to show us what one looked like, eh?
It's amazing to think that the average Legionaire ate three pounds of corn/grain a day. I imaging each 8-man group might have done a ration-pooling to make meals, but still. Three pounds? On the other hand, reading about all the labor these troops were doing I can see why they would need to have such a large amount - that's quite a lot of calories they'd be burning...
-Quintus Claudius Britannicus
Roy Davies\' PhD Thesis - Vindex - 10-16-2013
Thanks Duncan. As a fan of Roy Davies' work this is great. (Even if I have all the other books and articles!)
Roy Davies\' PhD Thesis - Renatus - 10-24-2013
Quote:I don't suppose there's a picture or two floating around somewhere to show us what one looked like, eh?How about this?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/081_Conrad_Cichorius%2C_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule%2C_Tafel_LXXXI.jpg
Roy Davies\' PhD Thesis - ROMan - 10-24-2013
Quote:I don't suppose there's a picture or two floating around somewhere to show us what one looked like, eh?
-Quintus Claudius Britannicus
Two allegedly "Roman" sickles acquired in Jerusalem of unknown find-spot, taken moments ago with my iPhone:
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Roy Davies\' PhD Thesis - Epictetus - 10-24-2013
They look just like the ones in the relief. I've never done any harvesting by hand, but I'm wondering why they didn't attach long handles on the end. Bending down like that to cut the grain looks particularly back-breaking.
Roy Davies\' PhD Thesis - Renatus - 10-24-2013
Quote:Two allegedly "Roman" sickles acquired in JerusalemThese from Newstead are definitely Roman:
http://www.curlesnewstead.org.uk/platelxi.htm
Roy Davies\' PhD Thesis - ROMan - 10-27-2013
Quote:Robert Mason post=345758 Wrote:Two allegedly "Roman" sickles acquired in JerusalemThese from Newstead are definitely Roman:
http://www.curlesnewstead.org.uk/platelxi.htm
Interesting. The tangs look more convincingly Roman than mine do!