Nubian archers appear as Skilled shouters (as Loose Order and/or Skirmishers) in all early Egyptian lists from Old Kingdom to Saitic - except Libyan Egyptian and Saitic. Are these latter two intentional or 'missed' ?
Quote from: IanN on November 27, 2019, 08:04:04 AM
Nubian archers appear as Skilled shouters (as Loose Order and/or Skirmishers) in all early Egyptian lists from Old Kingdom to Saitic - except Libyan Egyptian and Saitic. Are these latter two intentional or 'missed' ?
or the Kushite Egyptian list.... which if anyone was going to have
Suspect they may no longer have been seen as the especially effective archers that they were earlier - plus classifications are often affected by the desire to get relationships right between armies in a book as more important than comparisons with similar troops in different books.
But Christian Nubians have skilled...
There is evidence that they were especially effective 8)
The huge difference in time between them and the earlier ones make extrapolating into the gap unwise.