The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . e koba, some helmet of thiskind, was worn by the trained infantry, who werespearmen among the Hebrews, but archers andslingcrs had round skullcaps of skins, gelts orquilted stuffs, such as are still in use among theArabs. The form of Greek and Roman helmets,both of leather and of brass, is well known; theywere most likely adopted also by the Hebrewsand Egyptians during their subjection t
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . e koba, some helmet of thiskind, was worn by the trained infantry, who werespearmen among the Hebrews, but archers andslingcrs had round skullcaps of skins, gelts orquilted stuffs, such as are still in use among theArabs. The form of Greek and Roman helmets,both of leather and of brass, is well known; theywere most likely adopted also by the Hebrewsand Egyptians during their subjection to thosenations- (3) Body Armor. The most ancient Persianidols are clad in shagged skins, such as the /Egisof Jupiter and Minerva may have been, the typebeing taken from a Cyrenaean or African Egypt cuirasses were manufactured of leather,of brass and of a succession of iron hoops, chieflycovering the abdomen and the shoulders, but amore ancient national form was a kind of thoraxtippet, shereyon, or square, with an opening init for the head, the four points covering thebreast, back and both upper arms. This kindin particular was affected by the royal band ofrelatives who surrounded the I. Egyptian Tigulated. 2. Sleeve of Ring-mail, Ionian. By their use of metal for defensive armor, theCanans appear to have created astonishmentamong the Egyptians, and therefore may be pre-sumed to have been the first nation so protectedin western Asia; nevertheless, in the tombs ofthe kings near Thebes, a tigulated hauberk isrepresented, composed of small three-coloredpieces of metal—one golden, the others reddishand green. This kind of armor may be meantby the word tcchcra, the closest interpretationof which appears to be decussatio, tigulatio, a til-ing. The expression in 2 Chron. xviii 133, may bethat Ahab was struck in one of the grooves orslits in the squares of his techera, or betweentwo of them, where they do not overlap, or per-haps, with more probability, between th
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