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Leonardo Gregoratti, « Gilles Courtieu. « L'arc des arsacides en dépit du bon sens » », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.49692
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Courtieu in his short but extremely detailed paper focuses on a detail of Arsacid coinage that has always stood in front of scholars’ eyes, but has never been analysed with the due attention: Arsaces’ bow. That the weapon depicted is a compound bow has been already pointed out in the past. No scholar before though has noticed that most of the bows wielded in Parthian coins are asymmetrical. Courtieu thinks this fact is intentional and represents the effort of depicting accurately the Parthian...