Roman Lead Sling Bullet: Pompey the Great

An ancient Roman lead sling bullet of elliptical form, inscribed, “CN MAG,” of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus – Pompey the Great, and was used during the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great and his son, at the battle of Munda in Spain, 45 BC.

Ca. 1st century BC.
Length: 1 1/2 in. (39 mm).

The Battle of Munda took place on March 17, 45 BC in the plains of Munda, southern Spain. This was the last battle of Julius Caesar’s civil war against the conservative republicans led by Pompeius Magnus, the son of Pompey the Great.

Formerly in an English private collection.
Cf. D'Amato R. and Sumner, G., Arms and Armour of the Imperial Soldier: From Marius to Commodus, 112 BC - AD 192, London, 2009, fig. 32, p.45 for a similar glandes from Zaragoza Museum, the one with the name Pompey inscribed coming from Munda battlefield.
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