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Fri 17 Jun, 2011 9:55 pm
As per Julien's suggestion in
my thread on the exhibition at the Cluny Museum this summer, I've managed to wrestle out my other sword pictures from spending a month in London. Since this is the British Museum thread, here they are! Julien has already captured most of the artifacts I took snapshots of, but it's always nice to see other angles. :)
Onward to pictures! Be warned--there are a lot of 'em!
Here we go.
Here's the entrance to the museum, then the great courtyard within.
One of my favorite halls (on the east side) where they preserved the look of some of the earliest days of the collection.
Lots of dusty old books behind glass and random instruments placed next to unrelated things in display cases, with a marble sculpture thrown in here and there. Sheer madness.
One of the aforementioned nifty instruments, sharing a case with a nice mace.
Onward to swords and stuff!
A couple African sword-like implements
A carved ivory Roman sword hilt. Spatha, probably.
Bronze spearheads and engraved spear butt, Greek.
Corinthian helm, Greek
cuirass
Roman helm, for a gladiator
Scabbard fittings
...More in a moment.