07-13-2007, 06:48 PM
Thanks for the painting, nice indeed!
Ammianus Marcellinus has this comment on Arabs (XIV 4,3).
apud has gentes [sc. Arabes], quarum exordiens initium ab Assyriis ad Nili cataractas porrigitur et confinia Blemmyarum, omnes pari sorte sunt bellatores seminudi coloratis sagulis pube tenus amicti --
Among those tribes whose original abode extends from the Assyrians to the cataracts of the Nile and the frontiers of the Blemmyae all alike are warriors of equal rank, half-nude, clad in dyed cloaks as far as the loins --
Translation by J. C. Rolfe (Loeb series)
When I find something else I'll post you. Btw. you should check R. G. Hoyland's Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam. I just ordered my copy few days ago
T. Lankila
Quote:Besides the sculptural Assyrian evidence (for the appearance of early Arab armies) are there any other sources for these armies?
JP Vieira
Ammianus Marcellinus has this comment on Arabs (XIV 4,3).
apud has gentes [sc. Arabes], quarum exordiens initium ab Assyriis ad Nili cataractas porrigitur et confinia Blemmyarum, omnes pari sorte sunt bellatores seminudi coloratis sagulis pube tenus amicti --
Among those tribes whose original abode extends from the Assyrians to the cataracts of the Nile and the frontiers of the Blemmyae all alike are warriors of equal rank, half-nude, clad in dyed cloaks as far as the loins --
Translation by J. C. Rolfe (Loeb series)
When I find something else I'll post you. Btw. you should check R. G. Hoyland's Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam. I just ordered my copy few days ago
T. Lankila
T. Lankila
Fennis mira feritas, foeda paupertas: non arma, non equi, non penates; victui herba, vestitui pelles, cubile humus: solae in sagittis spes, quas inopia ferri ossibus asperant.
Tacitus, Germania 46
Fennis mira feritas, foeda paupertas: non arma, non equi, non penates; victui herba, vestitui pelles, cubile humus: solae in sagittis spes, quas inopia ferri ossibus asperant.
Tacitus, Germania 46
