First try at a Xiphos

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First try at a Xiphos

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01-01-2014, 07:12 PM

There's something I hadn't thought of,the ones with the flanges on the tang,like the naueII has,these have to be the earliest type.
That could be useful in assigning a general date to these? Even the flat tanged types,closer in general to the flanged type,earlier the sword?

I'll have to keep digging but,I wouldn't be to suprised to find there is a connection between the grip flanges going and,the guard profile becoming wider in general.
By the time we reach the Hellenistic period,from the limited examples I have to judge from,the guards are really wide(I have to do the last pass on them with a torch,just a hair to wide to fit in the forge)but,no grip flanges to be seen.
Just my opinion but,for a late Archaic/early Classical xiphos,a flanged grip would not be a bad option,maybe even a good one.

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First try at a Xiphos - by Dave Akers - 12-12-2013, 01:01 AM

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First try at a Xiphos - by Dave Akers - 12-20-2013, 05:21 AM

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