02-20-2013, 12:02 AM
Sutoris,
By the 1st century AD, the splayed or crescent pommel (like on my akinakes) was "old hat." Most post AD akinakae had the ring pommel. Yup, it looks like the tip of the blade shows through in your photo, but likely because the leather sheath-end has broken off or disintegrated.
That belt buckle you're going to make looks much like a couple of examples I saw when visiting the Archaeological Museum in Odessa, Ukraine. A lot of great Alanic stuff there, also some Celtic stuff (maybe from the Galatians). I'm fairly certain, the open-work on that buckle is a chieftain's tamga.
If your going to make one, please make another one for me! :grin: :woot:
By the 1st century AD, the splayed or crescent pommel (like on my akinakes) was "old hat." Most post AD akinakae had the ring pommel. Yup, it looks like the tip of the blade shows through in your photo, but likely because the leather sheath-end has broken off or disintegrated.
That belt buckle you're going to make looks much like a couple of examples I saw when visiting the Archaeological Museum in Odessa, Ukraine. A lot of great Alanic stuff there, also some Celtic stuff (maybe from the Galatians). I'm fairly certain, the open-work on that buckle is a chieftain's tamga.
If your going to make one, please make another one for me! :grin: :woot:
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
