12-06-2016, 07:57 PM
(12-05-2016, 12:09 AM)Alanus Wrote: Her longest dagger (#9) is almost a forerunner of an akinakes. It measures 17 inches, has a semi-mushroom pommel, one side of which is engraved with a "portrait"-- a round-faced man with a brachycephalic skull, also commonly called "Andronovo," "Ferghana-Pamir," or more accurately "Siberian."
Hello, hope you don't mind me focusing on such a small part of this very interesting post. I'd recently read about the Krotov-culture and Karakol daggers, which seem to me to be the forerunners of the akinakes. But they lack guards, while these more easterly ones have a rudimentary one; perhaps the historical akinakes is a fusion of the styles?
And as with the Karakol daggers, the appearance of this one from Baifu puts me in mind of nothing so much as a long spearhead with the socket turned into a hand grip.
Dan D'Silva
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I ride the winds of fate
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-- Gamma Ray
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To pick myself up from under this table...
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