Tentorium (tent)
A tentorium ( Latin , from tendo "to span") was a tent in Roman antiquity , especially in the Roman military .
Description and use
The tentorium was a gable tent and consisted of four solid wooden posts (two on each side) that were rammed into the ground at an angle to each other. A hemp rope was stretched between two pieces of wood, over which leather was stretched. This was mostly goatskin. The leather was anchored at the edge with tent pegs (paxillus) in the ground and thus additionally stretched. When disassembled, all wooden posts and pegs were wrapped in the leather tarpaulin.
The tentorium was a military tent for the common soldiers, the legionaries. They had to sleep together in groups of eight men (so-called contubernium ) in such a tent. This group also had a mule (mulus) that carried the tent.
In addition to the tentorium, the Roman legion also had the tabernaculum , a tent for officers.
literature
- Peter Connolly : The Roman Army ("The Roman Army", 1975). New edition Tessloff-Verlag, Nuremberg 1989, ISBN 3-7886-0180-9 .
Web links
- Roman camp life on the Weilberg in Ungstein. for my old and new sextans in the next school year. gottwein.de, accessed on January 14, 2011 .
- Robert Paterson's Weblog: reboot9 - What would a human and high performing organization be like - Part2 (May 25, 2007) , with a picture of a Roman tent (reconstruction), accessed on January 14, 2011 (English)
- Klaus Grote : Archaeologist in southern Lower Saxony: Roman camp near Hedemünden , with a picture of Roman tent pegs and other excavated objects, accessed on January 14, 2001.