Ζαβαρεῖον
armory, zabareion
Translated by Anne Mahoney23 Jun 2001Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning the place] in whiche the zabai,1 which are implements of war, are put away. For a zaba is a corselet.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ζαβαρεῖον· ἐν ᾧ αἱ ζάβαι, αἵ εἰσιν ὅπλα πολεμικά, ἀπόκεινται. ζάβα γὰρ τὸ λωρίκιον.
Betacode
*zabarei=on: e)n w(=| ai( za/bai, ai(/ ei)sin o(/pla polemika/, a)po/keintai. za/ba ga\r to\ lwri/kion.
Notes (1)
- The headword, a neuter noun, is otherwise attested (in the genitive case) in Eustathius' account of the Norman sack of Thessaloniki in 1185.
The termζάβα (and Latin zaba), probably a loan from an Altaic language, occurs in historical and legislative sources from the early sixth century CE, and is especially frequent in late antique and Byzantine military treatises. For sources and discussion see Haldon (1975) 19-21, 37 n. 126; Kolias (1980); (1988) 37-43, 65-7. - 1Likewise in ps.-Zonaras, though the headword there is (by mistake?) zabeion, otherwise unattested. ↩
References
J.F. Haldon, 'Some aspects of Byzantine military technology from the sixth to the tenth centuries', BMGS 1 (1975) 11-47
T.Kolias, 'Ζάβα, Ζαβαρεῖον, Ζαβαρειώτης', JÖB 29 (1980) 27-35
T.Kolias, Byzantinishe Waffen. Ein Beitrag zur byzantinischen Waffenkunde von den Anfängen bis zur lateinischen Eroberung ([Byzantina Vindobonensia 17] Vienna 1988)
T.Kolias, 'Ζάβα, Ζαβαρεῖον, Ζαβαρειώτης', JÖB 29 (1980) 27-35
T.Kolias, Byzantinishe Waffen. Ein Beitrag zur byzantinischen Waffenkunde von den Anfängen bis zur lateinischen Eroberung ([Byzantina Vindobonensia 17] Vienna 1988)
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Revision history5 revisions · last 3 Feb 2018
- another keyword — Catharine Roth
- expanded notes; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- Tweaked trans; modified note; bibliography — Philip Rance
- added note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Anne Mahoney