Canaanean Blade

A type of extremely regular and large (1-2 inches wide and up to 10-12 inches long) flint blade produced by a specialized technique. The technology seems to have first appeared at the beginning of the 4th millennium BC in eastern Anatolia and adjoining areas, and was then introduced to the southe...

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Canaanean Blade

Halberd

A weapon with a pointed or V-shaped blade mounted at right angles to its haft (handle), yet with its flat surface in the same plane as the shaft, and used with a chopping motion. In bronze it was popular in the European Early Bronze Age (mainly in Ireland and central Europe) and appears again in ...

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Halberd

Erbenheim Sword

Heavy bronze flange-hilted sword with a leaf-shaped blade for slashing rather than thrusting. Originating in the early urnfield traditions of central Europe, examples were exported to surrounding areas, some arriving in Britain, for example, in the Penard Phase of the later Bronze Age, the 12th c...

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Erbenheim Sword

Dagger-Ax

A bronze Chinese weapon in use from Shang Dynasty (c 1500 BC) to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). The earliest forms were broad and mounted at right angles to a wooden shaft through which the tang projected. Later forms had a slender blade which extended down the shaft at right angles to the main...

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Dagger-Ax

Winged Chape

A metal cap covering the end of a sword scabbard that has one or more projecting ribs or wings so that a swordsman riding on horseback can hold the scabbard with the heel of his boot while drawing his sword singlehandedly. Winged chapes are especially characteristic of the European later Bronze A...

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Winged Chape

Sparth

Sparth, ένα τσεκούρι μάχης, παρόμοιο με αυτό που έφεραν οι Νορβηγοί στην Ιρλανδία.

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Sparth

Sparth, a battle-axe, similar to what the Norwegians carried into Ireland.

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Sparth

Bolas

South American weapon for hunting in open grassland consisting of two or more weights connected by cords or thongs. The bolas is thrown at the legs of the fleeing prey, felling it for dispatch with another weapon.

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Bolas

Labrys

An axe with a double head that was a religious symbol in ancient Crete.

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Labrys

Labris ya da Labrys, Lidya kökenli bir kelimedir. Çift ağızlı baltayı tanımlamak için kullanılır.

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Labrys

Labrys (Greek: λάβρυς, lábrus) is, according to Plutarch (Quaestiones Graecae 2.302a), the Lydian word for the double-bitted axecalled in Greek a πέλεκυς (pélekus).

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Labrys

Acinaces

Kısa ve düz Pers kılıcı. Kıvrık Roma sicasından bu yönüyle ayrılır. Vücudun sağ tarafına asılarak taşınır. Tanrı Mithra'nın kabartmalarında statü simgesi olarak işlenmiştir. Altından yapılmış olanları Pers kralları tarafından onur simgesi olarak bireylere verilirdi. İskitler ve bazı Kuzey Avrupa ...

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Acinaces

A short sword or scimitar, often very short and worn suspended from a belt around the waist, and used by Eastern nations of antiquity, esp. the Medes, Persians, and Scythians.

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Acinaces

Xiphos

Xiphos; çift ağızlı, tek elle kullanılan, yaklaşık 50-60cm boyutlarındaki kılıç. Pers savaşları döneminde Spartalılar tarafından kullanılan Xiphos, bu dönemde yaklaşık 30cm kadar kısalmıştır. Yapısı genelde ortada yaprak damarı şeklinde veya enine kesitte elmas ya da merceksidir. Genellikle bir k...

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Xiphos

The primary weapon of ancient Greeks was the spear. If it broke they used a short single hand sword known as Xiphos. The Xiphos had a double-edged blade that rarely measured longer than 20 inches which made it useful in close range combat. It was more martially versatile than the other prominent ...

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Xiphos

The Xiphos (Greek: (To) ξιΦος) is a double-edged, single-hand sword with blade of around 50-60 cm long, widest at about two-thirds of its length, although the Spartans supposedly started to use blades as short as 30 cm around the era of the Greco-Persian Wars. The Xiphos sometimes has a midrib, o...

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Xiphos