08-23-2004, 06:26 AM
Aulus,<br>
I wasn't questioning the ballista's workmanship!<br>
You're meaning the 2nd century Lyon kambestrion, that with the iron modioli. Be careful with it, as the drawings in Baatz& Feugére depicts the bars as if they were radially set (i.e. placed at the ends of the same 'diameter') but the photos show clearly that they are off-set placed!<br>
Turning to the positioning of the kambestria, I think that the way you've put them on Gemina's ballista may work well (so does Wilkin's system) but it goes against the scanty evidence we have: The Hatra frame and a pair of depictions on Trajan's Column<br>
<img src="http://www.stormthewalls.dhs.org/Siege/Aitor/SMALL/Fig.%205%20copiaSML.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
showing the 'bulges' in the kambestria clearly on the front and pointing outwards.<br>
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Aitor<br>
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I wasn't questioning the ballista's workmanship!<br>
You're meaning the 2nd century Lyon kambestrion, that with the iron modioli. Be careful with it, as the drawings in Baatz& Feugére depicts the bars as if they were radially set (i.e. placed at the ends of the same 'diameter') but the photos show clearly that they are off-set placed!<br>
Turning to the positioning of the kambestria, I think that the way you've put them on Gemina's ballista may work well (so does Wilkin's system) but it goes against the scanty evidence we have: The Hatra frame and a pair of depictions on Trajan's Column<br>
<img src="http://www.stormthewalls.dhs.org/Siege/Aitor/SMALL/Fig.%205%20copiaSML.jpg" style="border:0;"/><br>
showing the 'bulges' in the kambestria clearly on the front and pointing outwards.<br>
<br>
Aitor<br>
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