01-09-2013, 01:01 AM
Quote:The Polybian camp does seem to meet nearly all the requirements of the playing card shape and a direct pre-cursor of the later fortresses. ...Polybius' camp is almost square. (His description is problematic.)
Quote:What has puzzled me is how the 'Hyginus' and possibly the Later Byzantine shapes came about, for they make much less sense.Hyginus' camp is the classic tertiata ("in three zones") that gives the so-called playing-card shape, Mark.