Delos Sword

[Conal]

All the Hispanienses that I've ever seen are slightly waisted. The Delos sword is yet inside its scabbard (or at least inside the metal border guttering) and, therefore, it is not possible to say whether it is straigt-sided or not without closer examining involving X-Rays.

Aitor

There are some straight sided ones shown in JRMES 9 I believe and I understood that the Delos had been x-rayed and it is not waisted. Dont quote me on that though.

IIRC the sequencing from the Celt-Iberian sword was seudo La Tene II with longish point , Delos type with a shorter more angular point, then waisted, then slimmer waisted blades like Matt Amt's elegant blade.

Then there was a change to a Mainz type which was shorter but with a much wider blade. This would make me question if the Mainz was a developement from the Hispaniensis or a new design due to a radical change in fighting technique.