12-19-2006, 07:41 PM
It's a pommel made by 3 esferes. It's common in some other reliefs, like the famous centurio Minucius Lorarius (43 bC), that you can find in the database of funerary stellae:
I think it's dont have yet atested archeologically. All the republican period swords seems to have organic hilting, so there are not preserved.
I am extremly interested in see the exemplar you quote. Please, can you post a picture?
The lenght of the sword implies a cavalry sword, better than a common gladius.
The palmyrene relief depicts some local war gods, if i remember correctly.
I think it's dont have yet atested archeologically. All the republican period swords seems to have organic hilting, so there are not preserved.
I am extremly interested in see the exemplar you quote. Please, can you post a picture?
The lenght of the sword implies a cavalry sword, better than a common gladius.
The palmyrene relief depicts some local war gods, if i remember correctly.
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