TAA i.3.33.2

Notes                   Arms and Armour                        (1)

             Shield:

24-856 A piece of defensive armour borne on the left arm or 

             carried in the left hand as a protection against 

             missiles.
             Varying in shape and form, it was the principal piece 

             of defensive armour.

9-44 <(Egyptian)> Shields were covered with ox-hide and furnished 

                               with round sighting holes above the middle. (Arms &
                               Armour. (W. M. F. P.)

9-860. (Etruscan).

            The chief weapons (besides bows and arrows which 
            bore flint and bronze heads) were few and simple, 
            and were of bronze). Shields were of circular and 
            oval shape.

2.583 (Arms and armour) Under this heading are included weapons 

          of offence (arms) and defensive equipment (armour). 

          The history of the development of arms and armour begins 

          with that of the human race; indeed combined with domestic 

          implements, the most primitive weapons which have been 

          found constitute the most important, if not the only, 

          tangible evidence on which the history of primitive man 

          is based.
          Offensive weapons may be classified roughly, according 

          to their shape (i.e. the kind of blow or wound which they 

          are intended to inflict), and the way in which they are used,