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Odd bladeshape!
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03-05-2007, 08:54 AM
This blade looks more like a very short spatha than a gladius!

http://www.roemisches-mainz.de/mainz/pi ... en012g.jpg
(borrowed the link from another thread)

Any Ideas or commentaries on the blade! Very tapering and with broad fuller at the strong of the blade!

Cool! Has anybody seen a reconstruction of it and is this blade from the early first century AD?

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03-05-2007, 09:24 AM
Looks similar to some 'daggers/short swords' represented in some sculpture......
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03-05-2007, 02:04 PM
Some gladiator "gladii" looked sort of like that. They tended to be a little off-size from regular military blades.
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03-05-2007, 02:14 PM
Martin,

A remodeled or reworked blade of a broken blade?
there is a same looking blade of a shortened spatha in " Militari Sisciensia " Zagreb
Cat No. 61
maybe someone can tell more on the shortened swords of Künzig

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03-05-2007, 02:27 PM
In fact there is one similar evenly tapering sword blade found from the Künzing hoard dated to the third century AD. It is classified in the category of "semi-spathas", as an evidence of the continuity of shorter bladed swords also in the late roman context. If I remember correctly tehre is some information about these swords in the book "The Late Roman Army" by Pat Southern and Karen Dixon...
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03-05-2007, 03:18 PM
Quote:In fact there is one similar evenly tapering sword blade found from the Künzing hoard dated to the third century AD. It is classified in the category of "semi-spathas", as an evidence of the continuity of shorter bladed swords also in the late roman context. If I remember correctly tehre is some information about these swords in the book "The Late Roman Army" by Pat Southern and Karen Dixon...

Tab down to Spatha bits http://www.romancoins.info/MilitaryEqui ... ttack.html
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