Ближний Восток и его соседи

g 199 h Archaeological Evidence for Mamlūk Archery 88–91. As already stated, crossbow bolts tended to have their iron heads inserted in a more basic, almost rough-and-ready manner than did arrows. Nevertheless, the evidence of numerous surviving bolts with heads still attached, including these late Mamlūk examples from CD5 of the Citadel of Damascus, show that they normally had some form of binding to strengthen the front of a shaft which had been weakened by drilling a hole for the head’s tang. (Syrian Department of Antiquities, Damascus; IFPO and author’s photographs).