Thearos
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I don't know much about arrows, but since (in my view) this is a good, sensitive representation of a slinger (esp. as concerns pose), I wonder if the arrows are accurately shown-- barbed, wide head; short length; "round" fletching, big notch-- reminds me of the arrows that would go with a reflex bow.
E. Simon, who published this cup, thinks it shows a man fighting horse archers, because of the angle of the arrows-- which frankly I can't understand. In any case, foot archers also could use reflex bows (contacts with the Skythians). Greeks were surprised when they met people who shot long arrows (in the Anabasis, the Greeks take such arrows and make them into javelins).
Looks like a man in the "metaichmion", the no man's land, before battle starts. Arrows fly, but fall short. Coolly, he fishes a stone out of the pouch hanging on his left arm, passes it to his left hand (which already holds the pouch), then stretches the sling out with left hand down and right hand above his head, grip upwards (shown on the cup); next he will aim, swing and release a big stone at his archer enemies. "The slinger is slavish, the slinger is a coward", is what people say; here, the slinger fights his skirmishing fight with his opposite numbers, and it takes skill and courage to execute the gestures in the firing line.
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