Archery Collection (page 6)

Persian enamelled brick archer, 6th century BC
Persian enamelled brick archer from the Royal Guard. Originally from the Palace of Darius at Susa, from the Louvres collection, 6th century BC

Scythian depiction of an archer on horseback, from the British Museums collection

Parthian ceramic plaque from the 1st to 3rd century, depicting a mounted archer
Parthian ceramic relief plaque, depicting a mounted male archer, 1st to 3rd Century. Said to be from Syria. From the British Museums collection

Detail of a relief showing an archer of the Persian Royal Guard, Palace of Darius I, Susa, c500 BC. Now part of the collection at The British Museum

Relief showing archers of the Persian Royal Guard, Palace of Darius I, Susa, c500 BC. Now part of the collection at The Louvre

Glazed brick relief of archers from the Royal Guard, Palace of Darius I, Susa, Persian, 522-486 BC. Part of the collection at The Louvre, Paris

Robin Hood, legendary English folk hero and outlaw and champion of the poor, early 19th century. Robin (c1250-c1350)), an expert with the longbow and the quarter-staff, drawing his bow

Timur attacking the Knights of St John at Smyrna, 1402 (1467). Artist: Bihzad
Timur attacking the Knights of St John at Smyrna, 1402 (1467). Timur Lenk (1336-1404), or Tamerlane, meaning Timur the Lame

Roman soldiers, 1801. Standards of Roman legions (top) and weapons and armour used by Roman soldiers (bottom). From Ancells Monthly Military Companion, 1801

Heiji Rebellion, Japan, 1159. The abduction of the former Emperor Go-Shirakawa by Fusiwara No Nobuyori. Go-Shirakawa was later freed and Nobuyori killed, by Taira no Kiyomori

English troops attacking a French town, Hundred Years War, 1337-1453 (c1830). The English besiegers are armed with early cannon and both longbows and crossbows

Battle between Nuno de Guzman and inhabitants of Michuacan, Mexico, 16th century. De Guzman and his native Tlazcalan allies attacking Michuacan

Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria, c9th century BC
Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria. Ashurnasirpal, king from 883-859 BC, leading an assault on a city with battering rams and siege engines. Bas-relief from the British Museum

Russians routing Bulgarians in a cavalry skirmish. Chromolithograph from a 10th century Sclavonian manuscript in the Vatican Library

Selim I, Emperor of Turkey from 1512. Selims (1465-1520) army attacking Persians under Ismail I (1487-1524), founder of the Safavid dynasty, at Khoi, Iran in 1514

Painted and inlaid coffer from the Treasure of Tutankhamun, Ancient Egyptian, c1325 BC. A coffer decorated with a scene of a king in a war chariot

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498. Artist: Albrecht Durer
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, 1498. Illustration of the Revelation of St John from the Bible. An Archangel watches as four agents of destruction

Merchants transporting goods to the coast and a waiting vessel by camel, 1575. From Cosmographie Universelle by Andre Thevet. (Paris 1575)

Events of the The Hundred Years War, (20th century). From an anti-British brochure titled Who has been the enemy of France through History?

Attic plate with an image of an archer in Scythian dress, 5th century BC. Artist: Epiktetos
Attic plate with an red-figure image of an archer in Scythian dress, from the British Museums collection, 5th century BC

Greek painting of a Scythian archer blowing a trumpet, 6th century BC
Attic painting on a clay plate of a Scythian archer blowing a trumpet, from the British Museums collection, 6th century BC

Onondaga village attacked by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, 1615. Onondaga were Iroquoian-speaking people inhabiting villages of bark and wood longhouses occupied by related families

Hittite relief of an archer, Tell Halaf, Syria, c10th - 9th century BC
Hittite relief of an archer, Tell Halaf, Syria, c10th-9th century BC. From the British Museum

Relief of a Chariot, Hittite. Now in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

Neo-Hittite stone relief of an archer, c9th century BC

St Sebastian, Christian martyr, mid 19th century. Sebastian (dc288) was a Captain of the Praetorian Guard. The Emperor Diocletian ordered his execution but the archers ordered to carry out the task

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Winder (Cranequin), crossbow, German, probably Dresden
Crossbow (Halbe Rustung) with Winder (Cranequin), crossbow, German, probably Dresden; winder, possibly German, crossbow, ca. 1720-30; winder, ca. 1575-1600

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