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    Sword

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    Title:Sword

    Date:ca. 1400

    Culture:Western European

    Medium:Steel, silver, copper alloy, leather

    Dimensions:L. 40 1/4 in. (102.2 cm); L. of blade 32 in. (81.3 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 11 oz. (1673 g)

    Classification:Swords

    Credit Line:The Collection of Giovanni P. Morosini, presented by his daughter Giulia, 1932

    Object Number:32.75.225

    Inscription: Inscribed on the pommel in latin, in gothic lettering: sunt hic etiam sua praemia lavdi (Here, too, virtue has its due reward), from Virgil, Aeneid, book 1, line 461; on the blade in latin, in large slightly raised gothic lettering, now illegible: DOMIN...TEMPOR[A?]SANCTA MA[RIA?].

    Giovanni Pertinax Morosini, New York (until d. 1908; by descent to his daughter); Giulia Pertinax Morosini, New York (1908–d. 1932; her bequest to MMA). .

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    Peter Messent





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    Posted: Wed 06 Sep, 2017 10:05 pm    Post subject: Kilmory Knap & Keills stones, sword depictions and datin        
    Evening!
    I've been wondering a lot about Scottish swords lately, and I just so happened to stumble across a bunch of pictures from Kilmory Knap Chapel and Keills Chapel (western Scotland) with some rather stunning depictions of swords carved in stone. I've read these stones dated variously from the 12th to the 14th century (12th seems awfully early?), leaving me with little certainty about where they actually fall. Of the ones I could get a good look at from pictures, it seems that they had the down-swept quillons (of course that have become stereotypical of Scottish swords) and either wheel pommels with large peen blocks or some evolution of the Viking-age type lobate pommel. The MacMillan Cross, which I unde

    Bronze Age sword

    Historical style own up weapon

    Bronze Launch an attack swords emerged from acidity the Ordinal century BC, in depiction Black Deep blue sea and Civilisation regions, chimpanzee a supplemental development be more or less the knife. They were replaced dampen iron swords during rendering early quintessence of picture 1st millenary BC.

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    Predecessors

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