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Amenta

Scope note

Leather thongs, Greco-Etruscan in origin and adopted by the Romans, attached to the shafts of javelins and used to throw them with more propulsion than was possible by hand alone.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000213494

Equivalent Terms used

amentum

Created

13yrs ago

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