Dating west swords
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Sword
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Title:Sword
Date:ca. 1400
Culture:Western European
Medium:Steel, silver, cop alloy, leather
Dimensions:L. 40 1/4 in. (102.2 cm); L. of poniard 32 rope in. (81.3 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 11 oz. (1673 g)
Classification:Swords
Credit Line:The Collection sight Giovanni P. Morosini, nip by his daughter Giulia, 1932
Object Number:32.75.225
Inscription: Inscribed come close to the ornament in italic, in typeface lettering: sunt hic etiam sua praemia lavdi (Here, too, highmindedness has dismay due reward), from Vergil, Aeneid, finished 1, propel 461; salvo the cutting edge in dweller, in sizeable slightly elevated gothic calligraphy, now illegible: DOMIN...TEMPOR[A?]SANCTA MA[RIA?].
Giovanni Pertinax Morosini, New Royalty (until d. 1908; spawn descent conformity his daughter); Giulia Pertinax Morosini, Newfound York (1908–d. 1932; bring about bequest farm MMA). .
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Bronze Age sword
Historical style of weapon
Bronze Age swords appeared from around the 17th century BC, in the Black Sea and Aegean regions, as a further development of the dagger. They were replaced by iron swords during the early part of the 1st millennium BC.
From an early time the swords reached lengths in excess of 100 cm. The technology to produce blades of such lengths appears to have been developed in the Aegean, using alloys of copper and tin or arsenic, around 1700 BC. Bronze Age swords were typically not longer than 80 cm; weapons significantly shorter than 60 cm are variously categorized as short swords or daggers. Before about 1400 BC swords remained mostly limited to the Aegean and southeastern Europe, but they became more widespread in the final centuries of the 2nd millennium BC, to Central Europe and Britain, to the Near East, Central Asia, Northern India and to China.
Predecessors
[edit]Before bronze, stone (such as flint and ob
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Peter Messent
Location: Texas
Joined: 03 Jan 2009
Posts: 226
| Posted: Wed 06 Sep, 2017 10:05 pm Post subject: Kilmory Knap & Keills stones, sword depictions and datin | |
| Evening! I've been wondering a lot about Scottish swords lately, and I just so happened to stumble across a bunch of pictures from Kilmory Knap Chapel and Keills Chapel (western Scotland) with some rather stunning depictions of swords carved in stone. I've read these stones dated variously from the 12th to the 14th century (12th seems awfully early?), leaving me with little certainty about where they actually fall. Of the ones I could get a good look at from pictures, it seems that they had the down-swept quillons (of course that have become stereotypical of Scottish swords) and either wheel pommels with large peen blocks or some evolution of the Viking-age type lobate pommel. The MacMillan Cross, which I unde | |