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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3174168, member: 96864"]Orielensis, thank you greatly for your thoughts! The modern/lower case Greek is still unintelligible to me, and having never been particularly skilled with the analytical dissection of the English language let alone others I possess no expertise to draw from here.</p><p><br /></p><p>More broadly, the bullets would generally be inscribed with direct information denoting the origin or allegiance of the forces, their commanders (Alexander, Kassander, Lysimachus etc.), images with sarcastic implications (snakes to bite you, bees or scorpions to sting, spears to pierce, thunderbolts to strike, etc.) or written sarcastic jibes at the enemy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lacking the language skills I can't say whether or not it is a self-referential statement about the 250+fps speeds of the bullet, but since the speed of the projectiles would have been entirely familiar and painfully evident to the militaries of the Hellenistic era (thus such an inscription would have been unnecessarily redundant), do you think it's possible that it was a sarcastic/derisive recommendation to the enemy that they themselves ought to run away at high speed? Honestly I've never tapped-into such a superb collective of expertise in this realm so any thoughts or criticisms are greatly welcome.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a bullet with an awesome embossed Triskelion, a symbol common in the ancient world but apparently used as the city symbol for Aspendos among others. Shown is a mediocre Selge stater of the same style with the slinger and triskelion, so my hopes are that the renowned slinger-mercenaries of that region of anatolia used such bullets to warn the enemy that their day was going to get much much worse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]816556[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3174168, member: 96864"]Orielensis, thank you greatly for your thoughts! The modern/lower case Greek is still unintelligible to me, and having never been particularly skilled with the analytical dissection of the English language let alone others I possess no expertise to draw from here. More broadly, the bullets would generally be inscribed with direct information denoting the origin or allegiance of the forces, their commanders (Alexander, Kassander, Lysimachus etc.), images with sarcastic implications (snakes to bite you, bees or scorpions to sting, spears to pierce, thunderbolts to strike, etc.) or written sarcastic jibes at the enemy. Lacking the language skills I can't say whether or not it is a self-referential statement about the 250+fps speeds of the bullet, but since the speed of the projectiles would have been entirely familiar and painfully evident to the militaries of the Hellenistic era (thus such an inscription would have been unnecessarily redundant), do you think it's possible that it was a sarcastic/derisive recommendation to the enemy that they themselves ought to run away at high speed? Honestly I've never tapped-into such a superb collective of expertise in this realm so any thoughts or criticisms are greatly welcome. Here's a bullet with an awesome embossed Triskelion, a symbol common in the ancient world but apparently used as the city symbol for Aspendos among others. Shown is a mediocre Selge stater of the same style with the slinger and triskelion, so my hopes are that the renowned slinger-mercenaries of that region of anatolia used such bullets to warn the enemy that their day was going to get much much worse. [ATTACH=full]816556[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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