"Nubian Club Men and Shields" Topic

I would like some input from the group. I started painting an old pack of Foundry Nubian Club Men. These came with Egyptian type shields, some small and some medium.

Do think these Egyptian type shields would be accurate for Nubian units fighting Egyptians and as Egyptian sub units. I have other units which are more "rawhide" like.

My thought is to mix the shield types and make the units look less than standardized.

What are your thoughts?

PzJ

Interesting question that i had not considered – my OG15 Nubians have rounds.

I did paint some loincloth/kilts with a scheme from a set of figures recovered from a tomb – shades of white with red and green trim stripes.

Considering the adoption of the Egyptian pantheon as and example there was a significant influence that pervaded Nubian society.

IIRC, a formation of wooden Egyptian tomb figurines was painted to be quite Nubian-looking, although I forget whether they were armed with bows or some other weapon. Hmm, bows, I guess?

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Aha! Nubian spearmen, too, apparently:

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But the latter have also been identified as Egyptian, so I'm not sure:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesehti

I have a feeling that last wiki link is the product of someone from the Black Egypt faction.

Pictures of tomb paintings do not show Egyptian soldiers with complexions that dark.

Not that there may not have been individual Egyptians who were of mixed parentage and therefore more heavily pigmented, but unlikely to have been entire units.

The Egyptians went to the effort to show varying complexions among captives or members of tribute bearing embassies in their paintings. In addition the sculptors of the tomb figures went to the effort of varying the height of the figures in what was presumably an effort to depict real troops. With that it would seem odd that those who painted the tombs would do differently than the model makers when it came to skin colors (and vice versa).

The image page:

just describes them:
Description Wooden figures from the tomb of Mesehti, 11th Dynasty
Date 1988
Source Cairo Egyptian Museum

The caption applied on the Mesehti page has no reference. You would probably have to look elsewhere for a professional identification.

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers

Goragrad,

Egyptian paintings can be fairly inaccurate, as they frequently used red skin to denote men and yellow skin to denote women. But Libyans were always white, so go figure.