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StaffSlinger Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 479 Florida	Sling in 13th Century Spanish Hebrew Manuscript Oct 29^th, 2023 at 8:30am From an Anglo-Saxon group I belong to... David's sling in a fragment of a Hebrew manuscript dated 1301 from the town of Tudela in Navarre, Spain...
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 3640 PA, USA	Re: Sling in 13th Century Spanish Hebrew Manuscript Reply #1 - Oct 29^th, 2023 at 5:42pm Great picture. I do wonder what the writing says.
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Eino Senior Member Offline Projecting stones with a cord-based device! Posts: 348	Re: Sling in 13th Century Spanish Hebrew Manuscript Reply #2 - Oct 30^th, 2023 at 7:37pm Interesting. It looks almost like a balearic sling with a woven part in between the sides of the pouch.
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Jaegoor Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2856 Gender:	Re: Sling in 13th Century Spanish Hebrew Manuscript Reply #3 - Nov 2^nd, 2023 at 8:31am A Balearic? Nope. The letter is closed
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Eino Senior Member Offline Projecting stones with a cord-based device! Posts: 348	Re: Sling in 13th Century Spanish Hebrew Manuscript Reply #4 - Nov 2^nd, 2023 at 9:47pm It's definitely not balearic in pouch design, but the cords look like those of a balearic sling. Now that I think about it, all that it would have in common with a balearic sling is the presence of braided cords.
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