A New Bronze Sword from Cyprus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3493620 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H W Catling (corresponding author), Hector Catling |
| Year | 1961 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 138 |
| Pages | 115-122 |
| Publication date | 1961-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00035997 |
| OpenAlex | W2489816399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
This new sword comes from the collection of Mr Evangelos Loizou of Famagusta, and has been brought to my attention by my former colleague Dr Vassos Karageorghis of the Cyprus Museum. The sword (PLATE XVI (a)) was given to Mr Loizou's father by a villager of Enkomi some years ago, and almost certainly comes from the famous Late Bronze Age city and cemetery site a few hundred metres west of the village. It could well have come from a grave. The sword lacks the extreme tip; one edge is chipped. Apart from superficial corrosion it is in excellent condition.The preserved length is 0.47 m.; the handguard is 0.05 m. wide, and the length of the hilt, 0.10 m. The greatest width of blade (below handguard) is 0.035 m. The rivets diminish in length from pommel to handguard in the range 0.023-0.018 m. There are two rivets in the handgrip and six in the handguard. The pommel ears are prominent, but there is no spur. The hiltplates were made of some perishable material, but, as often, their outline can be restored from the 'shadow' left by the corrosion pattern on the handguard. The junction of blade and handguard is more angular than on any other Mediterranean example known to me; also unusual is the even taper of the blade from handguard to tip in place of edges normally either parallel, or even slightly swelling
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Blade (archaeology) · Bronze · Composite material · Rivet · Shadow (psychology) · SWORD · Ancient Near East History · Engineering · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Materials Science · Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
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Greek Settlement in the Eastern Aegean and Asia Minor
The Homeric Poems as History
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Barbarian Europe and Early Iron Age Greece
The Warrior's Beauty
The Nitrica I
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North and South at the End of the Mycenaean Age
The metal industry of continental Italy, 13th to the 11th century BC, and its connections with the Aegean
The Inception of the Final Bronze Age in Middle Europe
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Notes from Achaea
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| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 1962 - 2022 (61) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |