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Stone Ballista Catapult Shot
Stone Ballista Catapult Shot
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Roman, 1st-3rd century A.D. or later. Roughly spherical stone cobble with impact scar. See Wilkins, A., Roman Imperial Artillery, Solway Print, 2017. 973 grams, 81 mm (3 1/8 in.).

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

The operation of the onager (Latin for 'wild ass') is first mentioned in 353 A.D. by Ammianus Marcellinus in his Res Gestae and more fully in Vegetius's Epitoma Rei Militaris probably written in the reign of Emperor Theodosius I (378-395 A.D.). [No Reserve]
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