The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . hat of the Hittites was regarded as an innumerable host. A passage in the AnastasiPapyrus, No. 1, pis. xiv. 1. 1,—svi. 1. 5, tells us the composition of a corps led by Ramses II. againstthe tribes in the vicinity of Qoceir and tlie Eahanii valley ; it consisted of 5000 men, of whom 020 wereShardana, 1(300 Qahak, 70 Mashauasha, and SSO Negroes (Chabas, Voyage dun Egyptien, pp. 49-72). * For an illustration of this shield, taken from the tombs of Siiit,see Maspero, Dawn of Civiliza-tion, p. 457. THE NEW ORGANISATION OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY.
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . hat of the Hittites was regarded as an innumerable host. A passage in the AnastasiPapyrus, No. 1, pis. xiv. 1. 1,—svi. 1. 5, tells us the composition of a corps led by Ramses II. againstthe tribes in the vicinity of Qoceir and tlie Eahanii valley ; it consisted of 5000 men, of whom 020 wereShardana, 1(300 Qahak, 70 Mashauasha, and SSO Negroes (Chabas, Voyage dun Egyptien, pp. 49-72). * For an illustration of this shield, taken from the tombs of Siiit,see Maspero, Dawn of Civiliza-tion, p. 457. THE NEW ORGANISATION OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY. 213 ofteu furnished with a solid metal boss, which the experienced soldiers alwaysendeavoured to present to the enemys lances and javelin<. Their weaponsconsisted of pikes about five feet long, with broad bronze or copper points, occa-sionally of flails, axes, daggers, short curved swords, and spears; the trumpeterswere armed with daggers only, and the officeis did not as a lule en- i* tcumber themselves with eithei bucklei 01 pike, but boie an axe.
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