Nubian Archer

[IanN]

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' ?

[tarnowski1]

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

[nikgaukroger]

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.

[Rino]

But Christian Nubians have skilled...

[nikgaukroger]

There is evidence that they were especially effective 

The huge difference in time between them and the earlier ones make extrapolating into the gap unwise.