Gladiator Sword

[Yehya]

Hi
As I understand it there was one sword found at Pompeii amond the gladiator equipment with a blade around 30cm long that differed from the usual gladius carried by a soldier. The best I have come across is one crappy picture of it. Are there any good pictures, descriptions, drawings, or anything else? How about reproductions? If I try to search for gladiator sword reproduction I seem to get page and page of junk

Joel

[Olaf]

First there have been 3 sword found in the Pompeji gladiatorial barracks:
Two of these seem to be quite short with an overal length of about 30cm (blade 20cm) and one is about 40cm (blade 30cm).
A sword very similiar to the longer sword was found on the body of a supposedly naval soldier who also died during the Vesuv eruption.
Here are the 2 daggers:


And the longer sword:



Mainz type Gladii seem to have been used during the early days of Gladiator combat and can be seen in depictions of Gladiators that still use helmets without visors.

Reproductions range from the affordable versions by Historical Reproductions -
also availabe via Fabrica Augustiana in the Marketplace:
link from old RAT
Italian craftsmanship in our own RAT (search his older posts for bone handled versions):
link from old RAT
To high grade reconstructions from Aurificina Treverica:
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Since the bone handles are prone to break in show fight combat, if the material is not of sufficiant quality, our group uses safe blades with wodden handels form Armory Marek (scroll down):
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