07-21-2006, 11:07 AM
Not AT ALL!... I have in a book of mine, a VERY RARE photo (probably the ONLY!) of "Xyale" sword!
It looks like the classic straight hoplite shord, VERY... "scrubby" (almost alike in the width, but 20 cm ONLY in length) with a "leaf" shape 2-edges blade (wide in the handle, thin in the middle, wide and "curved" in the edge... The hadle was similar with the classic straight sword...
I'm pretty sure about that, according OF COURSE with the book...
I think ALSO, in "Osprey: The Greeks" book (you know, you have it also, I've seen illutrations of it that you posted before), THERE IS that picture that I'm talking about, in the first pages... I'm not sure if THIS is the picture, but I think so...
It looks like the classic straight hoplite shord, VERY... "scrubby" (almost alike in the width, but 20 cm ONLY in length) with a "leaf" shape 2-edges blade (wide in the handle, thin in the middle, wide and "curved" in the edge... The hadle was similar with the classic straight sword...
I'm pretty sure about that, according OF COURSE with the book...
I think ALSO, in "Osprey: The Greeks" book (you know, you have it also, I've seen illutrations of it that you posted before), THERE IS that picture that I'm talking about, in the first pages... I'm not sure if THIS is the picture, but I think so...
aka Romilos
"Ayet`, oh Spartan euandro... koroi pateron poliatan... laia men itin provalesthe,
...dori d`eutolmos anhesthe, ...mi phidomenoi tas zoas. Ouh gar patrion ta Sparta!"
- The Lacedaimonian War Tune -
"Ayet`, oh Spartan euandro... koroi pateron poliatan... laia men itin provalesthe,
...dori d`eutolmos anhesthe, ...mi phidomenoi tas zoas. Ouh gar patrion ta Sparta!"
- The Lacedaimonian War Tune -
