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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3207257, member: 96864"]I've made some nice new additions to the artifact collection recently, here is a set of bronze sling bullets and arrowheads found within 1 kilometer of the ancient city of Paphos, situated on the western side of the southern coast of Cyprus (one was posted before).</p><p><br /></p><p>The city was attacked and besieged by the Persians in ~497 BC, and excavations have shown that the defenders used slings in their ultimately unsuccessful defense of the city, while the Persians rained arrows on the defenders. The long tanged arrowhead may be unrelated (not too sure about them but the style seems endemic to Cyprus and rather common there), but the small triangular point is almost certainly Persian, and the 2 wicked bladed and 1 normal bronze sling bullets are almost certainly projectiles launched by the Cypriot defenders. It's rare that one can get such solid provenance for artifacts that they can be linked with recorded historical events, which makes this little collection rather special, above and beyond the rarity of the items themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>Top arrowhead is 8.53g, 65mm. Persian arrowhead is 2.52g, 18mm. Left normal bronze bullet is 51.82g, 40mm. Classy bladed bullet in center is 43.83g, 46mm, right bladed bullet is 39.75g, 38mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]831731[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also added a nifty Carthaginian molded-clay pottery sling bullet, found in Iberia so likely associated with the Punic Wars. Note the somewhat "hamburger-like" mold seam. 51.52g, 48mm. They were quite bulky compared to the Lead or Bronze bullets, but certainly more economical. It seems that they were rather highly standardized and their shape and size doesn't vary much between examples, which probably made their slingers quite efficient.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]831735[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]831736[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 3207257, member: 96864"]I've made some nice new additions to the artifact collection recently, here is a set of bronze sling bullets and arrowheads found within 1 kilometer of the ancient city of Paphos, situated on the western side of the southern coast of Cyprus (one was posted before). The city was attacked and besieged by the Persians in ~497 BC, and excavations have shown that the defenders used slings in their ultimately unsuccessful defense of the city, while the Persians rained arrows on the defenders. The long tanged arrowhead may be unrelated (not too sure about them but the style seems endemic to Cyprus and rather common there), but the small triangular point is almost certainly Persian, and the 2 wicked bladed and 1 normal bronze sling bullets are almost certainly projectiles launched by the Cypriot defenders. It's rare that one can get such solid provenance for artifacts that they can be linked with recorded historical events, which makes this little collection rather special, above and beyond the rarity of the items themselves. Top arrowhead is 8.53g, 65mm. Persian arrowhead is 2.52g, 18mm. Left normal bronze bullet is 51.82g, 40mm. Classy bladed bullet in center is 43.83g, 46mm, right bladed bullet is 39.75g, 38mm. [ATTACH=full]831731[/ATTACH] I also added a nifty Carthaginian molded-clay pottery sling bullet, found in Iberia so likely associated with the Punic Wars. Note the somewhat "hamburger-like" mold seam. 51.52g, 48mm. They were quite bulky compared to the Lead or Bronze bullets, but certainly more economical. It seems that they were rather highly standardized and their shape and size doesn't vary much between examples, which probably made their slingers quite efficient. [ATTACH=full]831735[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]831736[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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