Sword Mounts for a Byzantine Sword

Editor's Note: Traditionally sword types like this have been ascribed to the Islamic World. Professor Valeri Yotov disagrees (see links below), as do I. Swords like this are represented in Byzantine Art (see below also).

Date: 9th–10th century
Medium: Copper Alloy
Dimensions: (.1): H. 2 1/4 in. (5.72 cm); W. 2 13/16 in. (7.14 cm) (.2): H. 2 15/16 in. (7.44 cm); W. 2 5/8 in. (6.65 cm) (.3): H. 2 5/16 in. (5.87 cm); W. 2 1/8 in. (5.38 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Anonymous Gift, 1980
Accession Number: 1980.210.1-3

Professor Valeri Yotov's excellent papers can be found here:

sword-site.com/thread/110/sword-guard-professor-valeri-yotov
sword-site.com/thread/111/byzantine-swords-professor-valeri-yotov

and you can find Sword-Site's assemblage of images of Byzantine swords in art and from the archaeological record here (it's the largest of its kind anywhere on the net or in print): sword-site.com/thread/99/byzantine-swords

Source: www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/24879