Satala AD298 - a lost battle?

[Robert Vermaat]

Well, that's a fact shared with a lot of battles, some of them quite famous (Battle of Hastings comes to mind).

But at least that was somewhere near Hastings (I'm guessing), and not around a hundred and fifty miles away!

Nothing that dramatic, just a bit over 6 miles. At a place called 'Battle' today.

But this is an interesting battle, wherever it was, and it has a couple of unusual anecdotes attached to it. The first is the story in Ammianus about the soldier who finds a bag of pearls in the loot of the Persian camp; he thinks the pearls are worthless and throws them away, but keeps the nice bag...

Ammianus must have moaned when he first heard that... hock:

One day, when I have time to take up the Livius.org project again, I will improve it.

Thanks - I don't think there's too much rush though! I've been reading Parker's The Empire Stops Here recently, and he describes Satala (and mentions the famous battle there, of course! :wink: ). But your site actually shows me what the remains of the fortress look like - an invaluable bonus.

Agreed! Jona, your website is already brilliant!!