The Enemies of Rome: Proceedings of the 15th International Roman Military Equipment Conference, Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian National Museum 1st to 4th September 2005

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The Roman Military Equipment Conference (ROMEC) was held in Hungary for the first time between September 1–4, 2005, in the Hungarian National Museum. ROMEC was an initiative of British, Dutch and German researchers to create a platform for researchers studying Roman weapons, military equipment, written sources, Roman warfare and battlegrounds to present and discuss new their findings. The first conference was held in Sheffield in 1983. Fourteen ROMEC conferences have been held since, providing an opportunity for researchers to meet and discuss various issues in the light of the archaeological and historical evidence. The papers read at these conferences were at first published as separate BAR volumes and subsequently in the ARMA newsletter, launched especially for this purpose, as well as in the volumes of the Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies. The theme of the 2005 conference was 'Rome and her enemies'. The decision to hold the ROMEC XV conference in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest was made at the ROMEC XIV conference in Vienna in 2003. This opportunity motivated us to invite the hitherto undeservedly neglected colleagues in Russia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan studying the archaeology of the peoples living on the eastern fringes of the Roman Empire in addition to the European, Israeli and American researchers. We seized this opportunity to forge contacts with similar institutions and research projects, and to make more widely known a rich repository of barely accessible source material and research findings at a major conference. Another unique opportunity was that all aficionados of archaeology and history could participate, irrespective of their experience or academic training. The interest in the conference surpassed by far the extent of that for previous conferences. Some sixty researchers and scholars indicated their intention to participate during the four days. Researchers whose lectures could not be fitted into the planned schedule of thirty-six lectures offering a fascinating overview of the conference’s theme from various perspectives were given the opportunity to present their findings on posters on three occasions. Contents 5 List of contributors 7 Editorial 9 Major Themes I 15 Jon Coulston / The Enemies of Rome 17 Katarzina Czarnecka - Bartosz Kontny / Simply ornament or something more? Marks of undetermined function found on barbarian lance- and spearheads 31 Igor Gavritukhin / Late Roman Military Style in the East of the Forest and Forest-Steppe Zone of Europe 57 Thomas Grane / South Scandinavian 'foederati' and 'auxiliarii'? 69 Emilio Illarregui / Cantabrian weapons 81 Eszter Istvánovits – Valéria Kulcsár / Sarmatian swords with ring-shaped pommels in the Carpathian Basin 95 Bartosz Kontny / The war as seen by an archaeologist. Reconstruction of barbarian weapons and fighting techniques in the Roman Period based on the analysis of graves containing weapons. The case of the Przeworsk Culture 107 Alexander Nefedkin / Weaponry of the Goths of the mid-3rd to the 7th century AD 147 Yurij Zaytsev – Valentina Mordvintseva / The elite military necropolis in Scythian Neapolis (I-II century AD) 157 Major Themes II 169 Iona Cataniciu / Sagittarii on the South-East Frontier of Dacia 171 Eckhard Deshler-Erb / Militaria der Spätlatènezeit und der frühen Kaiserzeit aus Basel 181 Peter Dyczek / Segmental Armour from the Fortress of the First Italic Legion in Novae 191 Nicolae Gudea / 'Sagittarii Porolissenses' und ihre Kampfwaffen. I. 201 Norbert Hanel – Frank Willer / Untersuchungen zur Helmmaske von Kalkriese 213 Achim Rost / Conditions for the preservation of Roman military equipment on battlefields – the example of Kalkriese 219 Susanne Wilbers-Rost / Special features with Roman military equipment in Kalkriese 225 Michael J. Klein / Roman Decorated Daggers and Figural Sword Fittings from Mainz-'Mogontiacum' ('Germania superior') 237 László Kocsis: New data on the question of morphology and dating of the 'Intercisa III' type Helmets 249 Péter Kovács / Militaria from Anamatia 273 Zsolt Mráv / Beschläge eines Flavierzeitlichen Schurzcingulums aus Baláca (Komitat Veszprém, Ungarn) 279 Ivan Radman-Livaja / Roman belt-fittings from 'Burgenae' 295 Mirjana Sanader - Tomislav Šeparović – Domagoj Tončinić / Das Projekt 'Tilurium' 309 Hans-Joachim Schalles / A well-preserved 1st-Century torsion-weapon found at Xanten 317 Krisztina Szirmai / Early Depictions of Military Equipment in 'Aquincum' 321 The Historical Context 333 Dorottya Gáspár / Oath and Punishment with the Roman Army ('Dasius-acta') 335 Alexei Kozlenko / Barbarian Throwing Clubs and the origins of Roman Plumbatae 341 The Experimental Context 345 Florian Himmler / Testing the 'Ramshaw' Boot – Experimental Calceology on the March 347 Marquita Volken / Making the Ramshaw Boot, an exercise in experimental archaeology 359 Index 367