01-13-2011, 08:36 PM
This http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.s ... ctionNo=1# . Spatha was sold at Bonhams for £12,000- rather oddly, labelled as a Pompeii gladius.........
Roman Spatha at Bonhams
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01-13-2011, 08:36 PM
This http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.s ... ctionNo=1# . Spatha was sold at Bonhams for £12,000- rather oddly, labelled as a Pompeii gladius.........
01-13-2011, 08:38 PM
Nice blade, nevertheless. And indeed it isn't a pompeii gladius. I would also question the dating.
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01-13-2011, 09:58 PM
Me too!
There's some other military linked stuff as well, especially a military tombstone , in the catalogue.
01-13-2011, 11:03 PM
"Acquired by the owner in Germany in the late 1970s."
Right ... Perhaps more likely "Recently looted from the Balkans"
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01-14-2011, 03:10 PM
I also saw something on the list from Egypt....Zahi Hawass will become angry and eat their children.
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01-16-2011, 02:28 PM
Hmmm, i saw that sword recently somewhere. Can't recall where offhand, but the hilt looks liek a cross between spatha and the square block guard on a ring sword. I would guess late second century!
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01-16-2011, 11:15 PM
Hello
If total lenght is 68,5 cm, is short to be a spatha. Could be a narrow gladius. Or could be a fake. It's strange the way the guard plate is riveted to the guard.
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01-17-2011, 02:49 AM
Like I said it reminds me of the ring pommel swords..if you say it is quite short(I did not spot the length) then that makes me think it is a
2nd cent blade. The blade shape too is remenicent...
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