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Diocletian reproached him for his supposed betrayal, and he commanded him to be led to a field and there to be bound to a stake so that the chosen archers from Mauretania would shoot arrows at him. "And the archers shot at him till he was as full of arrows as an urchin [Note 1] is full of pricks, and thus left him there for dead."
The infantry runners, also wearing leather breastplates and armed with swords, spears, and round bronze shields, would have numbered more than 30,000 men in total strength. Add in the charioteers and archers mounted in the chariots and the 6,000 horsemen, the Philistines mustered a total of 48,000 soldiers against the Israelites.
'archers'; singular: τοξότης, toxótēs) were Ancient Greek and Byzantine archers. During the ancient period they were armed with a short Greek bow and a short sword. They carried a little pelte (or pelta) (πέλτη) shield. Hippotoxotai (ἱπποτοξόται) were mounted archers and rode ahead of the cavalry.
A vassal–state letter example from Hiziru, a "mayor", often referred to as the "Man of the City", in ancient Palestine is EA 337, entitled "Abundant supplies ready". The letter is short and undamaged: Say to the king, my lord, my Sun, my god: Message of Hiziru, your servant.
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.
List of Hebrew Bible events; New Testament This page was last edited on 26 August 2022, at 19:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Before Matt Stutzman, an athlete with no arms competing in para archery seemed like an impossible feat.. But the American archer has redefined the sport, showing that it’s possible to not only ...
A cohort based in Caesarea is referred to in the Acts of the Apostles (Ancient Greek: σπείρης τῆς καλουμένης Ἰταλικῆς, "of the cohort called Italian", in Acts 10:1, translated as the Italian band in the King James Version, or the Italian Regiment in the Good News Translation and World English Bible), and is associated with Cornelius the Centurion, the first ...