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Gaius Duilius and the CorvusThe Romans
Chapter 2 Case Study
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How the corvus worked…
3. Sharp ‘beak’ penetrates enemy hull
2. A System of ropes & pulleys lowers the corvus
1. The corvus, a 4ft by 36 ftbridge on a rotating axle is fitted to the Roman ship
4. The Roman landlubber armyfights on a flat surface and the enemy ship is disabled
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Images courtesy of Andrew McCabe: http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/Corvus.htmlThis is an excellent website with scholarship of the development of the corvus in a number of sources.
Aes grave:‘heavy bronze’Both the platform and the sharp beak are visible
Fighting platform
Sharp beak
Ramming prow
New shape for thebeak & platform
Coins minted by theend of the 3rd C, BC were smaller & moreDetailed, with writing to denote a mint: ‘ROMA’
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Rostral column reconstruction
Prows
Anchors
‘MCR - colonna rostrata di C Duilio 1150130’ by Lalupa – . Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MCR_-_colonna_rostrata_di_C_Duilio_1150130.JPG#mediaviewer/File:MCR_-_colonna_rostrata_di_C_Duilio_1150130.JPG
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G. Duilius’ dedication of booty at the Rostra, CIL 6.1300, c. 260 BC, recarved in the early imperial period
Note the arcane spellings
Captom Captum ‘Captured’
Navaled Navales ‘Ships’
Poplom populum ‘People’
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The Republican Forum in the 5th Century BC
Column of Duilius?
Senate house
Temple of Saturn
Temple of Castor
RegiaLapis Niger
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Proposed location ofTemple of Janus
Church of St Nicholas in Carcere
Theatre of Marcellus
Labels added by author. ‘Forum Holitorium - Lancianu 1893-1901’. Licensed under public domain via Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forum_Holitorium_-_Lancianu_1893-1901.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Forum_Holitorium_-_Lancianu_1893-1901.jpg
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Image from http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2013/04/rare-bronze-rams-from-the-first-punic-war-discovered/
One of ten ancient ship prows found by the Egadi Island Survey Project (off the coast of Sicily)