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I kind of randomly came across this mosiac with this groovy sword. What the heck is it? Any info on its legitimacy would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks guys, sorry it seemed so fantastical that I wanted more educated opinions than google. Youre right though I could have found this on my own. Maybe ill make a reproduction, this is interesting and would be a really weird shape to forge.
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You may know this already, but that statue was made by Antonio Canova at the beginning of the 19th century. I would imagine that he based the sword on a design he had seen on a Roman fresco.
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The myth (at least one version of it) says that Hermes provided Perseus with a sickle to behead Medusa. Sickles show up a lot in ancient myth, probably because of the lunar crescent shape. A similar object is the labrys, an axe with a double crescent head.
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