Long Hilted 5th Century Sword -- myArmoury.com

Len Parker · Posted: Mon 06 Aug, 2018 5:49 am Post subject: Long Hilted 5th Century Sword

Bottom right.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Consular_diptych_Constantius_III.jpg

Len Parker · Posted: Mon 06 Aug, 2018 5:58 am Post subject:

Home page for the date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Consular_diptych_Constantius_III.jpg

Alan E · Posted: Mon 06 Aug, 2018 7:02 am Post subject: Re: Long Hilted 5th Century Sword

Len Parker · Posted: Mon 06 Aug, 2018 8:08 am Post subject:

I'm thinking:
Blade: 1 and 1/2 " wide
Guard: 3" wide by 7/8"
Grip:7"

Are we looking at the evolution of the long hilted roman spatha, or maybe it's an eastern alanic type? I think this looks similar to alanic swords, but I'm no expert.

Len Parker · Posted: Mon 06 Aug, 2018 10:45 am Post subject:

Looking at the bottom scene, the man on the left looks like he's in chains, and the man at right has his hands behind his back. So I'm thinking these might be captured weapons. I thought it might be a roman cavalry spatha, but maybe not.