Ближний Восток и его соседи

g 171 h Archaeological Evidence for Mamlūk Archery 21–23. Even broken arrows can provide detailed information, most obviously when their iron heads, carved nocks or, more rarely, fragments of their flights survive. In fact, the abundant arrow fragments from room CD5 in the Citadel of Damascus included an astonishing variety of head types; an event greater variety being found amongst iso- lated heads which were no longer attached to fragments of shaft (see below). The finer quality and workmanship of the varnished binding systems on these very late Mamlūk arrows might indicate that the somewhat rougher arrows found in the Citadel of Aleppo were either earlier or were made for a local, non-elite part of a garrison. (Syrian Depart- ment of Antiquities, Damascus; IFPO photographs).