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What type of sword is this?

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What type of sword is this?
Oldpagan Offline
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05-07-2007, 03:51 AM
On another forum I am on, this was posted as being a picture of a roman sword on display at a museum in Turkey. Can anyone ID it ?
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05-07-2007, 04:47 AM
This looks like a spear and also looks non-roman or maybe a roman variation of an eastern spear.
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05-07-2007, 07:14 PM
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05-08-2007, 01:31 AM
The dagger/short sword down left with the shiny bronze grip looks Iranic (c. 1000 BC :?: ) to me. The other objects seem to be spearheads also of Near Eastern origin.

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05-14-2007, 12:57 AM
Yup, none resembles a Roman weapon that I'm familiar with, and the top one sure does look more like a speartip than a sword...
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