07-23-2017, 12:29 PM
Tony,
Very nice work. The scabbards usually had four tabs, just like you fashioned. These scabbards first show up at Arzhan, then Pazyryk, next in Kushana and Filippovka, and finally in the Crimea. Mostly they were made of wood, while the elite versions were done in gold or bronze & gold. Leather ones must have existed but would have disappeared in the strata. I think you did an exemplary reconstruction, and I (too) used leather.
Very nice work. The scabbards usually had four tabs, just like you fashioned. These scabbards first show up at Arzhan, then Pazyryk, next in Kushana and Filippovka, and finally in the Crimea. Mostly they were made of wood, while the elite versions were done in gold or bronze & gold. Leather ones must have existed but would have disappeared in the strata. I think you did an exemplary reconstruction, and I (too) used leather.
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
