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Sporting the Middle Elamite look

Started by Andreas Johansson, May 28, 2024, 06:35:43 AM

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stevenneate

An expensive way to generate a dozen articles though, although I appreciate my sentiment trying to persuade someone else to spend the big bucks. I've just spent my book allowance on Assyrian archaeology to read on my next holiday excursion. I do that.

Imperial Dave

I have lost count the amount of spend on publications, books and the like over the past few years.....what can I say. I am a book hoarder
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stevenneate

It"s a great part of the hobby, or should I call it an affliction?

Imperial Dave

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Imperial Dave

speaking of which...Slingshot 352 is now at the printers
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Imperial Dave

so that's your Christmas week reading sorted Steve
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Andreas Johansson

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Quote from: Andreas Johansson on May 29, 2024, 06:20:15 AMDuncan did post this (paywalled) article, which might be useful, and Nigel said it should be on JSTOR next year.
I found a pdf of this article: PM me if you want a copy (please include an email address to send the file to!).

It says that the arsenal at Haft Tepe / Kabnak was in the service of a charioteering warrior elite comparable to those of Hattusas, Alalakh, and Nuzi, emphasizing especially parallels with the last (which of course is the geographically closest). It doesn't offer a lot on appearance, but in saying that Elamite chariots would have looked and behaved much like Hurrian ones it offers some justification for the morphing I mentioned in the OP.

It does, incidentally, mention the production of spearheads at the site. Combined with the insistence that chariot warriors were primarily archers, the existence of foot spearmen is implied.
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