Format:
xv, 71 pages
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facsimile
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23 cm
Series Statement:
University of Florida monographs. Humanities no. 7
Content:
A cestus or caestus is an ancient battle glove, sometimes used in pankration. They were worn like modern boxing gloves, but were made with leather strips and sometimes filled with iron plates or fitted with blades or spikes, and used as weapons
Note:
"Catalogued as Egerton ms. 3507 [in the British Museum]."
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Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Cestus, a mask Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1961
Language:
English
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