Dura-Europos Final Report : Arms & Armour

[mcbishop]

Oxbow's new catalogue of titles they publish and distribute includes forthcoming BMP books (they now distribute British Museum Publications...), one of which is Simon James' contribution to the Dura series of reports. It is due September 2003, so start saving your pennies now (it is listed as £95). Paperback, 456pp, A4 format, 141 b/w illustrations, 13 colour. ISBN 0-7141-2248-3<br>
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For those who like taking the tablets, Tab. Vind III by Bowman and Thomas will be out in August for £75, ISBN 0-7141-2249-1<br>
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Mike Bishop <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

I've been looking forward to this one, as he mentioned that he has had another look at the much debated shields, should be very interesting.<br>
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but ninety-five pounds<br>
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do they do student discount?, say a mere £50-60 or so??!! <p></p><i></i>

[mcbishop]

<em>do they do student discount?, say a mere £50-60 or so??!!</em><br>
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I doubt it, but a little patience is usually rewarded in the case of over-priced books ;-) A perfect illustration of this is the CSIR volumes which were going for similar daft amounts, but have now been cut down to shift them. If you can't wait, then you pay the price premium - that's market economics (as applied to publishing, at least...).<br>
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[Thinks... what if I were to charge £200 for JRMES monograph 3?.... hmmm... ;-) ]<br>
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Mike Bishop<br>
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[Anonymous]

Hey, that's cool! Now I have something to put on my Saturnalia list. <p></p><i></i>

[Robert Vermaat]

Alas, some over-priced books never go down in price..but go out of print...<br>
Especially specialist book slike these.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Robert <p></p><i></i>

[NightHunter24]

Does Oxbow Publications have a website or can one get this and other titles via amazon.com and whatnot? <p></p><i></i>

[Sassanid]

www.oxbowbooks.com/<br>
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Select either Oxbow or David Brown, depending where you live.<br>
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Regards<br>
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Sassanid <p></p><i></i>

[NightHunter24]

GRATIAS PLENA SASSANID (did I say that right?)<br>
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[derek forrest]

The Guard now has a copy of the Dura Europa final report www.le.ac.uk/archaeology/.../index.htm by Simon James costing £99<br>
I managed to skim read it this weekend Its long after our period but is interesting as it was a bit of a time capsule 250AD where a tower fell on 19 individuals. It shows them wearing mail or scale but no plate. No Roman Helmets found. Horse armour . long swords worn on the left. It has the rectangular Scuta we are familiar with but only one. The text is quite short and a lot of the book is a catalogue. The pics are on the above website anyway.Its the sort of book a library/university would buy but its too pricy for the individual when you think what you could spend that amount on. <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

dunno about being too pricey for an individual<br>
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it depends on what value you place on having such reference material to hand <p><img src="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.martin/forum/mark.gif
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[Anonymous]

There's a bit of the old, stuff left over from the early principate, and the beginnings of the new, something for everyone. The Dura book also shows fragments of a second rectangular scutum. I find this somewhat more interesting as the details of the shield's construction may be clearly seen. One thing I notice is that this shield's reinforcing straps are attached over the fabric backing rather than underneath the fabric. Some roman helmet fragments were found as well. <p></p><i></i>