Roman siege engines: siege tower or the Taker of Cities, Helepolis 5, five-storey tower Sambucae 6, and battering ram on chains Aries 7. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1795.

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