Output details
31 - Classics
University of Oxford
Article title
Autour des Balles de fronde de Camiros
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
-
Title of journal
Chiron
Article number
-
Volume number
40
Issue number
2010
First page of article
155
ISSN of journal
0069-3715
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
Yes
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
In this article Ma assigns small body of inscribed sling bullets, with a certain location, to a known group of such material, from Kameiros (Rhodes). He classifies and typologizes this material. He further offers an interpretation in terms of context and function (not Rhodian production, but the archaeology of high political history, namely the armies of Demetrios Poliorketes), This precise piece of scholarship leads to broader questions about the type of material (the piece dispels much beloved cliches about inscribed sling bullets) and about the use of literacy and communication in Hellenistic armies
