A volley of missiles (1)

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Lugalbanda Epic 256-258:
From the city darts rained like rain, and from Aratta’s walls clay slingstones came clattering as hailstones come in spring.

LKA 63.11’:
If the intestines are speckled with small red granules, the enemy will make his weapons rain like the sky upon your army.

Homer, Iliad 12.154-158:
And they from their well-built ramparts pelted them with rocks … They fell to earth like snowflakes that the strong wind, harrying the gloomy clouds, sheds thick and fast upon the nurturing earth.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Homer, Iliad 12.154-158
LKA 63.11’
Lugalbanda Epic 256-258

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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