The dolabra[1] is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool (mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics. In the 1st century CE, at the Battle of Augustodunum, armoured Gallic gladiators were defeated by legionaries wielding dolabrae.[2]
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo said, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe".[3]
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^Cowan, Ross (Nov 2021). "Tales of the Axe". Ancient Warfare Magazine. 15/2: 9.
^Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009. Print.
The dolabra is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a...
to the times of the Roman Legion who used a type of mattock known as a dolabra. Julius Caesar, as well as other ancient writers, documented the use of...
camps were not available. They were also useful as improvised weapons. The dolabra was an Italian pickaxe used as an entrenching tool. A mattock /ˈmætək/...
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the mid-17th century. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mattocks. Dolabra Ice axe Pottiputki Cathy Cromell (2010). "Tools of the Trade". Composting...
were used to transport materials. Another tool used by miners was the dolabra fossoria, which was capable of being used as a pickaxe or as a mattock...
can be found in Liberia and Congo. Two species from genus Recilia, R. dolabra and R. jordanica were found to be junior synonyms of M. angustisecta in...
known that soldiers were required to carry entrenching tools (such as the dolabra) and turf cutters for the construction of a temporary camp at the end of...
incised abstract floral patterns. The term doloire is derived from the Latin dolabra, a tool axe used by Roman legionaries. Its alternative name wagoner's axe...
and disregard for the law. Their surname, Dolabella, is a diminutive of dolabra, a mattock or pickaxe, and belongs to a common class of surnames derived...
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shield, two pila, and food rations. They carried around tools such as a dolabra, a wooden stave, and a shallow wicker basket. These tools would be used...
Deacon and his epitome of Festus, see it to be an axe, a cleaver, or a dolabra, and others again a knife (Latin: culter). There are Roman coins representing...
T-shirt to this weapon". The dolabra was tested against a ballistics gel torso clad in a Rajput's coat of 10000 nails. The dolabra's axe-end chopped down vertically...
1948 i c g Sigara distincta Sigara distorta (Distant, 1911) g Sigara dolabra Hungerford and Sailer, 1943 i c g Sigara dorsalis Sigara douglasensis (Hungerford...
Strumigenys diota g Strumigenys disarmata Brown, 1971 i c g Strumigenys dolabra g Strumigenys dolichognatha Weber, 1934 i c g Strumigenys dora g Strumigenys...
dilatata (Thomson, 1888) c g Netelia dimidiata (Morley, 1913) c Netelia dolabra Kaur & Jonathan, 1979 c g Netelia ehilis (Cheesman, 1936) c g Netelia emorsa...
participating in the Roman battle is known as well: A Roman engineer's axe (dolabra) found on the battlefield is inscribed with LEG IIII (4th Legion) and further...
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