Ближний Восток и его соседи

g 195 h Archaeological Evidence for Mamlūk Archery 78–79. The existing far from secure tying of the stave to the front of the stock of the weapon in Granada also suggests that the two elements did not originally go together. However, the deep notch-like socket at the front of the stock seems to have been char- acteristic of Islamic crossbows, at least in the later medieval period. (Archaeological Museum, Granada; author’s photograph). 80. The decorated underside of the slender wooden stock of this weapon can be seen in a mirror placed behind the crossbow in Granada's Archaeological Museum. Here the photograph has been flipped horizontally to remove the resulting “mirror image”. (Archaeological Museum, Granada; author’s photograph).