Home›Ancient›All AncientBrowse ByAll AncientReference and ClassificationDevelopingWeapons fielded before roughly 500 CE: the pike and sarissa formations of Macedon, the Roman Republic's pilum and gladius, and Carthage's war elephants. Belongs here: a weapon or weapon class fielded by a classical-world force. Does not belong here: a weapon fielded after the western Roman collapse, which belongs to Medieval.FactsAll AncientSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEraWell-attestedto 499 1All AncientFilter Results63 entriesWeapon Type or ClassAllAgricultural hand tool (1)Ancient oared warship (galley) (1)Animal-mounted shock weapon (war elephant) (1)Area denial weapon (1)Axe (1)Bow (1)Cavalry lance (1)Club (2)Curved single-edged sword (1)Curved-blade polearm (1)Dagger (2)Defensive obstacle (1)Double-edged dagger, standard Roman legionary sidearm (1)Double-edged Iron Age shortsword (1)Double-edged straight sword (jian) (1)Flail and chain weapon (1)Hand-held crossbow (1)Hand-held projectile sling (1)Hand-held spear-thrower using leverage to launch a dart (1)Heavy oared warship with double-banked rowers (quinquereme) (1)Hoplite thrusting spear (polearm) (1)Incendiary Javelin (1)javelin (1)Mace (1)naval boarding device (1)Pike (polearm) (1)Polearm (5)Recurve composite bow (horse archery) (1)Repeating ballista (torsion siege artillery) (1)Ship-borne siege ladder (naval boarding engine) (1)Sickle-sword (1)Siege engine (1)siege ladder (1)Siege Weapon (4)Single-edged forward-curving sword (1)Spear (1)Spear Thrower (1)Staff Weapon (1)Sword (5)Throwing dart (1)Throwing knife (1)Throwing tool (1)Thrusting spear (1)Torsion siege artillery (1)Torsion siege engine (catapult) (1)Torsion siege engine (portable ballista) (1)Torsion-powered siege engine (1)Two-wheeled horse-drawn war vehicle (chariot) (1)Wheeled siege tower (1)CaliberAll.357 Magnum (1)600mm (1)610mm (1)Introduced EraAll-15500 (1)-7000 (1)-2500 (1)-2000 (1)-1950 (1)-1350 (1)-1100 (1)-800 (1)-700 (2)-650 (1)-530 (1)-500 (2)-400 (1)-399 (1)-390 (1)-375 (1)-359 (1)-305 (1)-300 (1)-270 (1)-264 (1)-260 (1)-216 (1)-213 (1)-200 (2)0 (1)1 (1)50 (1)1979 (1)Service StatusAllRetired (23)OperatorAllRoman Legion (1)Samurai (1)Wars Used InAllCrusades (1)First Punic War (1)Peloponnesian War (1)Punic Wars (2)Second Punic War (2)Spanish Civil War (1)Vietnam War (1)World War II (1)ManufacturerAllLockheed Martin Space (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 63AcinacesAncientAssegaiAncientAtlatlAncientBattering RamAncientBoomerangAncientCaltropAncientCarroballistaAncientCheiroballistraAncientCloud LadderAncientCorvusAncientDagger-axeAncientDao (Chinese Saber)AncientDoryAncientFalaricaAncientFalcataAncientFalxAncientGadaAncientGakgungAncientGastraphetesAncientGe (Chinese Dagger-Axe)AncientGladiusAncientGun (staff)AncientHastaAncientHelepolisAncientJi (Chinese Polearm)AncientJian (Sword)AncientKhopeshAncientKnobkerrieAncientKontosAncientKopisAncientLabrysAncientMakhairaAncientMeteor hammerAncientOnagerAncientOxybelesAncientPilumAncientPlumbataAncientPolybolosAncientQiang (Chinese Spear)AncientQuinqueremeAncientRoman BallistaAncientRoman OnagerAncientRoman PugioAncientRoman ScorpioAncientSambuca (Siege Engine)AncientSarissaAncientScorpio (weapon)AncientScytheAncientScythian BowAncientSicaAncientSlingAncientSpathaAncientThrowing KnifeAncientTridentAncientTriremeAncientTrou de LoupAncientTsurugi (sword)AncientWaddyAncientWar ChariotAncientWar ElephantAncientWoomera (spear-thrower)AncientXiphosAncientSources1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)tier 1InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentenceQuote, War and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentenceBoundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.