Akinakes - Scythian Iron Short Sword

The blade has a pronounced central ridge and a fluted, square handle with a T-shaped pommel wound upward on both sides into a tight coil. Seperately welded, short quillons curving downward.; handle and cross guard separately forged.

3rd-2nd Century BC

L. 25 1/8 in. (64 cm.)

Ex German collection.

Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, 2010, no. 249

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