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6/21/2025, 9:10:33 PM
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Sorry I meant ox was 2 solidi, cow was 1. But you get the idea. It's not armor wise but I remember in Hugh Kennedy(?)'s book on Armies of the Caliphate a point was made about the cost of a gucci-gang H&K T1 Operator style Yemeni sword versus a shitty beater Egyptian sword. The latter cost a pittance, the former cost a professional middle-tier soldier's entire yearly income and then some.
From the battle of Meggido, Thutmose III obtained as loot/spoils 2 bronze cuirasses and 200 rawhide/leather cuirasses. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1102/thutmose-iiis-battle-of-megiddo-inscription//?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Thutmose says he carried off 924 chariots of the enemy (his math doesn't add up though but whatever, drunk scribe drank too much mead). That is just one city state and it allows for charioteers who ran off with their armor, but it's still a pretty stark difference.
Nuzi Tablets have lots of info on cuirasses and a huge variety of them (bronze with leather sleeves, leather with bronze sleeves, bronze front leather back, leather front bronze back) but I can't recall specifics that help to narrow down the # of armor.
Much later and michael Burns' South Italic Military equipment thesis finds 45 triple disc cuirasses in South Italy, 22 ITalian anatomical cuirasses (pectorals), and I closed the image and am too lazy to reopen it but I think around 27-37 greek muscled cuirasses. (Cont)
Sorry I meant ox was 2 solidi, cow was 1. But you get the idea. It's not armor wise but I remember in Hugh Kennedy(?)'s book on Armies of the Caliphate a point was made about the cost of a gucci-gang H&K T1 Operator style Yemeni sword versus a shitty beater Egyptian sword. The latter cost a pittance, the former cost a professional middle-tier soldier's entire yearly income and then some.
From the battle of Meggido, Thutmose III obtained as loot/spoils 2 bronze cuirasses and 200 rawhide/leather cuirasses. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1102/thutmose-iiis-battle-of-megiddo-inscription//?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Thutmose says he carried off 924 chariots of the enemy (his math doesn't add up though but whatever, drunk scribe drank too much mead). That is just one city state and it allows for charioteers who ran off with their armor, but it's still a pretty stark difference.
Nuzi Tablets have lots of info on cuirasses and a huge variety of them (bronze with leather sleeves, leather with bronze sleeves, bronze front leather back, leather front bronze back) but I can't recall specifics that help to narrow down the # of armor.
Much later and michael Burns' South Italic Military equipment thesis finds 45 triple disc cuirasses in South Italy, 22 ITalian anatomical cuirasses (pectorals), and I closed the image and am too lazy to reopen it but I think around 27-37 greek muscled cuirasses. (Cont)
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