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Sa'ar Nudel
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Posted: Sun 27 Jun, 2010 9:42 am Post subject: |
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Lafayette C Curtis wrote: | Sa'ar Nudel wrote: | Egyptian warriors were very fond of the composete bow (they used very long vicious arrows) |
Only the chariot warriors--relief carvings continue to show foot soldiers with the old-style long non-recurved bows long after the composite bow became the predominant missile armament for charioteers. I don't know if there's any way to tell whether these long bows had self, laminated, or composite construction, though, since (if I'm not mistaken) the only ancient bows discovered in Egypt so far seem to be foreign ones (Assyrian?). |
According the egyptian iconography, they had simple, recurve and "triangle" bows alike (that last kind was unique to the Nubian infnatry).
Some more info can be seen here http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/weapons/index.html
Curator of Beit Ussishkin, regional nature & history museum, Upper Galilee.
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Lafayette C Curtis
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Posted: Sun 04 Jul, 2010 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Heheh. Actually, if you look at the site's page on bows and slings, you might notice a rather familiar name in the footnotes....
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Sa'ar Nudel
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Posted: Sun 04 Jul, 2010 12:50 am Post subject: |
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Lafayette C Curtis wrote: | Heheh. Actually, if you look at the site's page on bows and slings, you might notice a rather familiar name in the footnotes.... |
Hahaha, very cool
Curator of Beit Ussishkin, regional nature & history museum, Upper Galilee.
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