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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3518 UK	Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum May 21^st, 2009 at 5:31am This is a cameraphone snap from a mate who was in the British Museum recently. He saw this and thought "Oh, Dave will like this...." Its Assyrian, and the shot are about the size of a lemon.
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Fundibularius Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Sultan of Sling Posts: 1385 Inter Mosam ac Rhenum Gender:	Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum Reply #1 - May 21^st, 2009 at 8:17am The first artificial pre-Greek sling ammo I've seen. Thanks! Do you know whar they are made of? Clay? Surely not lead, I presume?
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Timothy Potter Senior Member Offline Posts: 340 Idaho Gender:	Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum Reply #2 - May 21^st, 2009 at 10:16am Is that the same display that's in the historical images gallery? -Timothy Potter
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Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum
Reply #3 - May 21^st, 2009 at 10:16am

Fundibularius wrote on May 21^st, 2009 at 8:17am:

The first artificial pre-Greek sling ammo I've seen. Thanks! Do you know whar they are made of? Clay? Surely not lead, I presume?

Try this for even earlier sling ammo.... http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070118/hamoukar.shtml

I am assuming they are clay. I tried looking for them on the BM website without success: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research.aspx

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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3518 UK	Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum Reply #4 - May 21^st, 2009 at 10:22am Timothy Potter wrote on May 21^st, 2009 at 10:16am: Is that the same display that's in the historical images gallery? -Timothy Potter So it is, well spotted! http://slinging.org/index.php?mact=Album,m5,default,1&m5albumid=4&m5returnid=53&...
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Fundibularius Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Sultan of Sling Posts: 1385 Inter Mosam ac Rhenum Gender:	Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum Reply #5 - May 21^st, 2009 at 1:18pm David Morningstar wrote on May 21^st, 2009 at 10:16am: [ Try this for even earlier sling ammo.... http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070118/hamoukar.shtml Wow, that is impressive! Never heard about it, I must admit. Shame on me.
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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3437	Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum Reply #6 - May 21^st, 2009 at 5:00pm Are the BM ones simply round stones ?
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David Morningstar Slinging.org Moderator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3518 UK	Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum Reply #7 - Oct 20^th, 2009 at 6:17pm These are the items in the BM online database: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_resu... Another pic of it that I found online and snaffled:
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3246 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum Reply #8 - Oct 20^th, 2009 at 6:25pm Many of the Hamoukar are 21/2 inches in diameter, and show deformities ranging from being flattened slightly to being mushroomed. The constant bombardment, along with fire, is thought to have brought the walls down. It is currently the earliest known evidence of slings used in warfare.
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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum Reply #9 - Nov 23^rd, 2009 at 8:56am Quote: “The attack must have been swift and intense. Buildings collapsed, burning out of control, burying everything in them under vast piles of rubble,” Incendiaries, probably slung.
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Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum
Reply #10 - Dec 18^th, 2009 at 10:48pm

I have just one question: does anybody have any idea how old are these stones, as it says on the photograph.
To say Assyrian means from the 20th to the 7th century BC. The period could explain why on the BM link there are only flint bullets, and flint is the third hardest stone there is (right after obsidian and diamond).

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Re: Assyrian sling ammo from the British Museum
Reply #11 - Dec 21^st, 2009 at 8:53pm

ShuKoon Deda wrote on Dec 18^th, 2009 at 10:48pm:

I have just one question: does anybody have any idea how old are these stones, as it says on the photograph.
To say Assyrian means from the 20th to the 7th century BC. The period could explain why on the BM link there are only flint bullets, and flint is the third hardest stone there is (right after obsidian and diamond).

According to the information on the British Museum website, the stones came from Lachish. The siege of Lachish by the Assyrians occurred in 701 B.C.

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