PROBABLY 9TH 10TH CENTURY

細節

A SOUTH RUSSIAN OR HUNGARIAN SABRE
Probably 9th 10th Century
In excavated condition, with narrow slightly curved single-edged blade, the hilt with iron guard comprising a toggle-shaped feature threaded over the tang and carrying short slightly downbent hoof-shaped quillons, and hollow copper-alloy (?) pommel of flattened elongated plummet shape, set at a slight angle to the end of the tang and secured by a transverse copper-alloy rivet
30in. (76.2cm.) blade

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拍品專文

This is a sabre of the earliest European type, introduced from the East by the nomadic people of the Steppe. The best-known, and most elaborate, example is the so-called sword of Charlemagne (or Attila) in the Imperial Treasury at Vienna, but many similar to the present one have been excavated in South Russia and Hungary

See Laking, vol. I, pp. 94-96; J. v. Kalmár, 'Säbel und Schwert in Ungarn', Zeitschrift für Historische Waffen- und Kostümkunde vol. 14, 1935-6, pp. 150-55; W.A. Swietoslawski, Arms and Armour of the Nomads of the Great Steppe in the Times of the Mongol Expansion, Lodz, 1999, pp. 47-51