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Pre-Roman
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& Post-Roman
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Pre-Roman Historical Images
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Greek
slinger, painted vase, 5th century B.C.
- source unknown- Hondero
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Assyrian
slingers and archers
Bass-reliefs from Ninive, 13th century B.C. -
Hondero |
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Defense
of a sieged city. Micenic silver rhyton (fragment),
4th Shakhtovoy Tomb of Miken, c. 16th century
B.C. |
Line drawing (see left) |
Assyrian
slingers and cavalry - source
unknown
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Line
drawing of slingers participating in a naval battle
- source unknown |
Hercules
with a sling. Myth of Stimphalian birds
Greek vase, 550 B.C., British Museum |
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Assyrian
King Sennacherib besieging Lachish Shiel
- source unknown |
Assyrian
King Sennacherib besieging Lachish Shiel. Erich
Lessing/Culture and Fine Arts Archives |
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The
first of twelve slabs from an Assyrian Palace
at Nineveh depicting Sennacherib's conquest of
Lachish. British Museum |
Assyrian
Slingers. Erich Lessing/Culture and Fine Arts
Archives |
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The
second of twelve slabs from an Assyrian Palace
at Nineveh depicting Sennacherib's conquest of
Lachish. British Museum |
Egyptian
slingers - source
unknown |
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Greek
slingers engaging archers, Greek vase, geometric
style - source
unknown |
Colima,
warrior with sling, clay, c. 200 B.C. - source
unknown |
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Scythian
slinger on horseback - source
unknown - Hellier Mason |
Assyrian
sling stones with modern sling, British Museum |
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Etruscan
Boy hunting birds, fresco from the "tombs
of hunting and fishing" in Etruria, 6th century
B.C. |
Greek
Slinger, Amphora, 5th century |
Egyptian
solider, possibly of Asiatic nationality, depicted
on the wall of the 15th tomb of the lords, contemporary
Beni Khasan |
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Aramaic
slinger, bas relief from Guzany, c. 1100 B.C.
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Line
drawing (see left) |
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Greek
Slinger, 5th century - source
unknown |
Line
drawing of a cave painting depicting a slinger
Catal Hüyük, Turkey, c. 7000 B.C. -
Dan Bollinger |
The
Oldest Surviving Sling (c. 1323 BC). Recovered in Luxor,
Egypt.
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Sling
recovered in Tutankhamen's (King Tut) Tomb. c.
1323 |
Sling
recovered in Tutankhamen's (King Tut) Tomb. c.
1323. Howard Carter Archives |
Digital
recreation of pouch - Hondero |
One of the oldest surviving slings
(c. 800 BC). Recovered in Lahun, Egypt.
Images courtesy of Mr. Cole and the
Petrie Museum, London. (four pictures below)
Greek
Coins minted at Aspendos, Panfilia. c. 3 and 4th century
B. C.
(all
coins below)
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