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Good pictures! I´ve not seen it before. Of course they are slings. See Bernard Henry "La fronde en Italie", 1972. In the chapter "SLINGS" recently published by 4accord, the thing is covered:
"Less uncertainty lies with the Etruscan slings, which are sufficiently well-represented in funeral monuments and have been carefully examined by B. Henry. On the one hand, we have the depictions of hunting and fishing from the tomb of Tarquinii [Italy] on which we see figures of slingers. However, the only fact one can take from them is the length of the slings, which he estimated in proportion to the body of the slinger, giving approximate dimensions of the once-folded sling of about 85 cm [33.5 in] for one depiction and about 120 cm [47.2 in] for the other that was shown.
More information is taken from the depictions of the Tomb of the Reliefs in Cerveteri [Italy], where four slings are portrayed. In the necropolis of Cerveteri, there are no frescos as in Tarquinii, but the walls of their mausoleums are nevertheless decorated with magnificent bas-reliefs which portray objects of daily life. On all the slings depicted on the Tomb of the Reliefs, the main braid is divided in the center part into three branches which form the pouch. There is a kind of knot in the vertices [points of intersection] of the pouch as if to secure the braiding. The length of the pouch is twice the width and approximately a ninth of the total length of the sling. The whole sling seems to be braided of rush or string. The average length of the once-folded slings would be about 80 cm [31.5 in].
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