Byzantine Weapons and Warfare

[kuura]

Ahh, sorry, my error. I thought I had seen a similar axe in this collection

http://www.worldmuseumofman.org/byzantineartifacts1.htm

but the blades of these are curving down and not 'S' shaped as you pointed out. Perhaps the soldier depicted was meant to be a Germanic within the Byzantine army?

Oh by the way, I'm having the war hammer on this (top right hand image) site made up for me, hopefully it should be ready soon and will post some pics when it is.
I've projected the rod at the back into a spike, approximately 8-10cm long as the example here is damaged, and after confering with Timothy Dawson he concluded that a spike would probably be ok, although he had never seen an example like this before. I did possibly think that the 'rod' may have terminated into a small crescent axe head, the strange chisel type hammer end being the reverse :?