Dolabra

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 priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool (mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics.

For the genus of fungi, see Dolabra (fungus).
Ancient usage of the dolabra as an entrenching tool. Romanian National History Museum, Cast of Trajan's Column

Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo said, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe".[1]

See also

Bibliography
  • Adrian Goldsworthy, The Complete Roman Army
  • Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009. Print.

References
  1. Strauss, Barry S. The Spartacus War. Simon & Schuster, 2009. Print.


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