09-14-2007, 07:29 PM
Quote:OK,back to dear home,and here are the photos promised.
First,Ruben,I think one of the sword you posted(the one with yellow and black grip) is a kopis and has a guard only from the left side.the guard is only the black thin part,the bronze one is the base of the scabard and not part of the hilt.
I think it's very clear that it is a bilobate pommel and not a birdheaded pommel. In addition, it seems clear that the painted of the Lyson and Kallikles tomb wanted to creat an effect of symmetry, which was acheived by having two bilobate-pommel swords and two birdheaded-pommel swords.
Quote:Here are the photos,One is in Ioannina Museum and the other in Dodona museum.I don't have further details about the time period etc.
Khaire
Giannis
![[Image: DSC02567.jpg]](http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118/kadoglou_gr/DSC02567.jpg)
![[Image: DSC02571.jpg]](http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118/kadoglou_gr/DSC02571.jpg)
But these are birdheaded and are still offset. Do you have examples of swords with hilts which are centred and not birdheaded?
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
