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ARMS AND WAR
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an uplifted arm — in attitudes of frenzy and supplication.
Before tlie walls we see the archers and sliugers in the
heat of conflict, — speeding their shafts and hurling their
missiles at the beleaguering foe, whose figures must have
filled the missing foreground.1 The bowmen are kneeling,
Fig. 95. Siege-Scene from Silver Vase (Grave IV.)
while the slingers stand erect and make ready for the
volley, all of them without defensive armor of any kind,
and entirely nude. Possibly the artist only intended thus
to suggest the suddenness of the onset and the "barbaric
fury with which the garrison have rushed to the defense.
At the bottom of the fragment is a warrior who seems
to be armed with a sling, and wears a short-sleeved chiton
and plumed helmet; in the midst of the combatants are
1 In fact another fragment gives ns trace of a horse and chariot, obviously
belonging to the besieger's van.
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an uplifted arm — in attitudes of frenzy and supplication.
Before tlie walls we see the archers and sliugers in the
heat of conflict, — speeding their shafts and hurling their
missiles at the beleaguering foe, whose figures must have
filled the missing foreground.1 The bowmen are kneeling,
Fig. 95. Siege-Scene from Silver Vase (Grave IV.)
while the slingers stand erect and make ready for the
volley, all of them without defensive armor of any kind,
and entirely nude. Possibly the artist only intended thus
to suggest the suddenness of the onset and the "barbaric
fury with which the garrison have rushed to the defense.
At the bottom of the fragment is a warrior who seems
to be armed with a sling, and wears a short-sleeved chiton
and plumed helmet; in the midst of the combatants are
1 In fact another fragment gives ns trace of a horse and chariot, obviously
belonging to the besieger's van.