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拍品专文
This elongated, double-edged blade has an ornate hilt composed of geometric cells inlaid with garnet and glass. The inlays are mostly flush with the surface but for the middle bands, which have cabochons. The grip and pommel, likely made of organic material, such as wood or bone, have not survived, but based on several closely-related examples, it is possible that the pommel was formed out of chalcedony (see the similar example with a lentoid chalcedony bead pommel from Taman in southern Russia, now in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, no. V.8 in U. Roberto, Rome and the Barbarians and pl. XII.4 in E. Behmer, Das Zweischneidige Schwert der Germanischen Völkerwanderungszeit).
The Taman Peninsula, which is bordered by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, had a mixed and evolving population, including Ostrogothic people who invaded in the 2nd century, followed by Huns in the 4th century. The style of the spatha presented here and the related examples from Taman now in Berlin illustrate influences from the neighboring Byzantine and Sasanian empires.
The Taman Peninsula, which is bordered by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, had a mixed and evolving population, including Ostrogothic people who invaded in the 2nd century, followed by Huns in the 4th century. The style of the spatha presented here and the related examples from Taman now in Berlin illustrate influences from the neighboring Byzantine and Sasanian empires.