Assertion: traction trebuchet | /r/CapableOf | become known in the eastern mediterranean area
Facets:
value: at the latest
type: TEMPORAL
value: by around 500
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Thus, on the basis of fairly hard evidence of unknown machinery in Joshua the Stylite and Agathias, as well as good indications of its construction in Procopius (especially when read against Strategikon), it is likely that the traction trebuchet had become known in the eastern Mediterranean area at the latest by around 500.