A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 114
3. a group of weapons which were found on the battlefield of Marathon(No. 266 ; fig. 103). The others are iron spearheads, arrowheadsboth of bronze and iron, and leaden slingshot, two of which aremarked with a thunderbolt and the Greek name Zoilos. L02 GREEK AND KOMAX LIFE. Another common type of… … The classical name was machaira.Xenophon recommends it asa cavalry weapon, becauseof its heavy down - stroke.This example comes from.Spain, where many similarswords have been found, butthe origin of the type isGreek or even Oriental. Thedagger with a cylindricalbronze hilt of which thepommel is a…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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