06-11-2009, 06:08 PM
By chance I came across a description of a sauroter with measurements. It was in a paper on votive weapons from 1881 and the author thought it was a spear point
Votive Armour and Arms
Author(s): W. Greenwell and P. G.
Source: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 2, (1881), pp. 65-82.
Here's what he wrote:
It is 11 1/4 inches long, of which what must be denominated the blade occupies 7 1/2 inches. The hollow of the socket, which is 7/8 in. wide, extends to a distance of 9 1/4 inches into the body of the weapon. The metal of which it is composed is bronze, but the exact nature of its composition cannot be stated, as it has not been analysed. It is now coated with a thin, dark- coloured patina, having upon it, here and there, patches of oxide of a light green colour. The socket, which has no rivet holes, is round at its extremity for the space of an inch, and then becomes dodecagonal up to the base of the blade, where three raised and rounded bands, a larger between two smaller ones, encircle it and form the division between the blade and socket. The blade is four-sided, gradually tapering and terminating at one end in a blunt point, and at the other passing, after a very graceful fashion, from the square into the round by being chainfered and forming four leaves, the leaf-like appearance of the chamfer being caused by continuing the angles of the blade down as far as the surrounding bands at the base. In form it corresponds very closely with those lately discovered at Olympia, and indeed so much alike are some of them that at first sight it might be thought that they had been cast in the same mould; a closer inspection, however, shows minute differences. It is inscribed on three of the four faces of the blade, the words being written from base to point...
Votive Armour and Arms
Author(s): W. Greenwell and P. G.
Source: The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 2, (1881), pp. 65-82.
Here's what he wrote:
It is 11 1/4 inches long, of which what must be denominated the blade occupies 7 1/2 inches. The hollow of the socket, which is 7/8 in. wide, extends to a distance of 9 1/4 inches into the body of the weapon. The metal of which it is composed is bronze, but the exact nature of its composition cannot be stated, as it has not been analysed. It is now coated with a thin, dark- coloured patina, having upon it, here and there, patches of oxide of a light green colour. The socket, which has no rivet holes, is round at its extremity for the space of an inch, and then becomes dodecagonal up to the base of the blade, where three raised and rounded bands, a larger between two smaller ones, encircle it and form the division between the blade and socket. The blade is four-sided, gradually tapering and terminating at one end in a blunt point, and at the other passing, after a very graceful fashion, from the square into the round by being chainfered and forming four leaves, the leaf-like appearance of the chamfer being caused by continuing the angles of the blade down as far as the surrounding bands at the base. In form it corresponds very closely with those lately discovered at Olympia, and indeed so much alike are some of them that at first sight it might be thought that they had been cast in the same mould; a closer inspection, however, shows minute differences. It is inscribed on three of the four faces of the blade, the words being written from base to point...
Paul M. Bardunias
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