07-19-2012, 12:14 PM
How much evidence is there for eagle head parazonia hilts? I have seen a bronze cast parazonium in Michael Fegueres' book that probably belonged to a statue that had an eagle head for a hilt. I have also seen an eagle head hilt on a parazonium that a Marcus Aurelius statue is holding and another statue in the Capitoline museum has the same ( the statue in this museum is a bald headed bearded man wearing a musculata...I do not know who he is)
However, at the same time I see hilts that look like those of a xipos. Now, I know that many people think that a Roman parazonium would have looked like a Greek xipos with respect to the blade also because the xipos appears to have been copied by Italics. All of the scabbard sculptures that I have seen appear to have the finial in a type of pelta shape just like actual Greek xipos that have been found.
So would it be plausible therefore,to make a parazonium scabbard with the typical Greek shape BUT have an eagle headed hilt as a modification to fit Roman taste?
Of course the Romans loving everything Greek could have left it with the typical xipos hilt. This is why I am asking for the eagle head evidence.
Any pictures would be appreciated.
However, at the same time I see hilts that look like those of a xipos. Now, I know that many people think that a Roman parazonium would have looked like a Greek xipos with respect to the blade also because the xipos appears to have been copied by Italics. All of the scabbard sculptures that I have seen appear to have the finial in a type of pelta shape just like actual Greek xipos that have been found.
So would it be plausible therefore,to make a parazonium scabbard with the typical Greek shape BUT have an eagle headed hilt as a modification to fit Roman taste?
Of course the Romans loving everything Greek could have left it with the typical xipos hilt. This is why I am asking for the eagle head evidence.
Any pictures would be appreciated.
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