Benna
Benna a carriage (Festus, s.v. Benna lingua Gallica genus vehiculi appellatur, unde vocantur combennones eadem benna sedentes.
Cf. Cato, Cat. Agr. 23, 2). As a waggon of basket-work is still called benna in Italian, benne in South German, and banne in Belgium, it is conjectured that the vehicle from the column of Antoninus figured below is a benna. [J.H.F]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.