MEDIEVAL WEAPONS

1279   IRON SPEAR-HEAD            VII-IX century            Khazarian Khaganate Conical socket with wide base, with one nail still preserved inside. Long narrow blade of rhomb section. Evidence of ancient secondary heating, most likely from cremation burial. Intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 13.3" (33.7 cm). See: Herzog R., Koller A. Die Alamannen. Stuttgart, 1997, p. 408; Yevglevsky A.V. The European Steppes in the Middle Ages. V.2.Khazarian Times. Donetsk, 2001, p.126, fig.50 #12; Daim F. History and archaeology of Avars / MAHET, vol. IX, 2002, p.341, tbl.1, #2. $ 350

1280   IRON SPEAR-HEAD            VII-IX century Conical split socket with wide base. Narrow long blade of rhomb section. Corroded, intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 9.3" (23.5 cm). See: Yevglevsky A.V. The European Steppes in the Middle Ages. V.2.Khazarian Times. Donetsk, 2001, p.83, fig.27 #10; Daim F. History and archaeology of Avars / MAHET, vol. IX, 2002, p.341, tbl.1, #2; Krim, Severo-Vostochnoye Prichernomor'ye i Zakavkaz'ye v epohu srednevekov'ya.Archeologia, Moscow, 2003, tbl.99 #3. $ 250

1283   IRON SPEAR-HEAD            IX century            Khazarian Khaganate Conical split socket with reinforced ring, with hole for a nail. Narrow long blade of rhomb section.  Intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 9.6" (24.5 cm). See: Archeologia. Krim, Severo-Vostochnoye Prichernomor'ye i Zakavkaz'ye v epohu srednevekov'ya, Moscow, 2003, tbl.89 #48. $ 250

1285   IRON SPEAR-HEAD            VII-IX century            South-Eastern Europe Conical split socket with hole for a nail. Narrow long blade with short shoulders, elongated (nearly flat) rhomb section. Part of the wooden shaft is preserved by the corrosion products inside. Small fragment at the base missing, otherwise intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 12.8" (32.5 cm). See: Archeologia. Krim, Severo-Vostochnoye Prichernomor'ye i Zakavkaz'ye v epohu srednevekov'ya, Moscow, 2003, tbl.77 #15. $ 300

1282   IRON SPEAR-HEAD            VII-IX century            South-Eastern Europe Conical socket with reinforced ring. Narrow long blade of elongated (nearly flat) rhomb section.  Intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 11.2" (28.4 cm). $ 250

1281   IRON SPEAR-HEAD            XII-XIV century Conical split socket with wide base, overlapped, with one hole for a nail. Narrow long blade with square section. Fragment at the base missing, otherwise intact. Surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 9.8" (25 cm). See: W. Swietoslawski. Arms and Armor of the nomads of the Great Steppe in the times of the Mongol expansion. Lodz, 1999, p.125 #1,2,3.Thunmark-Nylen L. Die Vikingerzeit  Gotlands II, Stockholm, 1998, tafel 240 #12.  $ 250

1296   VIKING AGE IRON SPEAR-HEAD            IX-XI century Narrow conical split socket. Wide rhomboidal blade with elongated (nearly flat) rhomb section. Originally socket was longer, otherwise intact. Part of the grain of the wooden shaft is preserved by the corrosion products inside. Surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 14" (35.5 cm). See: Thunmark-Nylen L. Die Vikingerzeit  Gotlands II, Stockholm, 1998, tafel 243-1, 250-2.  SOLD

1286   VIKING AGE IRON SPEAR-HEAD            IX-XI century Narrow conical split socket. Long blade with short shoulders, forming an obtuse angle, lenticular in section. Part of the grain of the wooden shaft is preserved by the corrosion products inside. Fragment at the base missing, otherwise intact. Surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 10.4" (26.3 cm). See: Thunmark-Nylen L. Die Vikingerzeit  Gotlands II, Stockholm, 1998, tafel 304, 248-2,3 242-5, 234-2  $ 275

1293   IRON LANCE            X-XIII century            South-Eastern Europe Conical socket. Narrow long blade of rhomb section with two notches at the junction with the socket.  Intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 20.1" (51 cm). SOLD

1294   IRON LANCE            X-XIII century            South-Eastern Europe Conical socket. Narrow long blade of rhomb section with two notches at the junction with the socket.  Fragment at the base missing, otherwise intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 20.7" (52.5 cm). SOLD

1302   IRON MACE- HEAD            XII-XIV century Oblate sphere, with rhomboidal protuberances along largest circumference. Intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film.   D. 2.2" (5.6 cm), H. 1.4" (3.6 cm). See: W. Swietoslawski.Arms and Armor of the nomads of the Great Steppe in the times of the Mongol expansion. Lodz, 1999, p.128. $ 550

1136   BONE DETAIL OF A COMPOSITE BOW            second half of VII century A.D.            Eastern European nomads of mid-Avarian period  Carved from a single bone. Trapezoidal cross-section and flat back. Face side with two planes. Internal plane with ornamentation of incised cross-hatched lines and a carved out trapezoidal notch at the broad end. Opposite end abraded, otherwise intact. L. curvature 9.8" (25 cm) See: Müller R., Vorbericht über die Freilegung des Grabes eines hohen Militärs aus der Mittelawarenzeit in Gyenesdias. CommArchHung, 1989, abb. 8-9; Pryhodnyuk O.M. Stepove naselennya Ukraini ta shidni slov'yani. Kiiv, 2001, p. 173, fig.30. $ 450

393   IRON AXE-HEAD           VIII-IX century           Khazarian Khaganate Axe head with with elliptical socket reinforced by upper and lower protuberances from each side. Long, flaring, rectangular in cross-section butt. The blade broadens out asymmetrically towards convex cutting edge. Segment cut out from lower side of blade. Intact. L. 7.1" (18 cm). See: Pletnyova S.A. Ocherki hazarskoy arheologii. Moscow, 1999, fig. 13; Pryhodnyuk O.M. Stepove naselennya Ukraini ta shidni slov'yani. Kiiv, 2001, p. 237, fig.98; Vita Antiqua, vol.2, Kiiv, 1999, p.143. $ 300

1303   IRON AXE-HEAD            VIII-IX century            Khazarian Khaganate Axe head with with elliptical socket reinforced by upper and lower protuberances from each side. Long, flaring, rectangular in cross-section butt with globular termination. The blade broadens out asymmetrically towards convex cutting edge. Segment cut out from lower side of blade. Intact.  L. 7.6" (19.4 cm). See: Pletnyova S.A. Ocherki hazarskoy arheologii. Moscow, 1999, fig. 13; Pryhodnyuk O.M. Stepove naselennya Ukraini ta shidni slov'yani. Kiiv, 2001, p. 237, fig.98; Vita Antiqua, vol.2, Kiiv, 1999, p.143. $ 350

1299   IRON AXE-HEAD            VIII-X century            South-Eastern Europe Axe head with with elliptical socket reinforced by upper and lower protuberances from each side, heavy butt with rectangular cross-section. The blade broadens out asymmetrically towards the slightly convex cutting edge. Intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 6.7" (17 cm). See: Aechaeologicheskiy almanakh,  vol.1, 1993, Donetsk, p. 55, fig. 66; Pletnyova S.A. Ocherki hazarskoy arheologii. Moscow, 1999, fig. 93. $ 350

1298   IRON PICK-AXE HEAD            XV century            South-Eastern Europe Axe head with elliptical socket has faceted sides decorated by a diamond in the middle of each side, long tapered pick with diamond cross-section; long cylindrical butt, terminated by a notched dome. Intact, surface covered with resoluble acrylic film. L. 7" (17.8 cm). See: Aechaeologicheskiy almanakh,  vol.1, 1993, Donetsk, p. 60, fig. 76. $ 1500

1310   INCENDIARY CERAMIC BOMB            X-XIII century Ceramic vessel for hurling incendiary mixtures. Cone-shaped body, hollow inside, with small cylindrical opening through the top along the axis of symmetry. Body decorated with in incised lines and clusters of circles. H. 4.6" (11.6 cm). See: W. Swietoslawski.Arms and Armor of the nomads of the Great Steppe in the times of the Mongol expansion. Lodz, 1999, p.75; S.V.Kiselev, N.Ya. Merpert, Zhelezniye ichugunnye izdelia iz Kara-Koruma, Drevnemongol'skie goroda, Moskva,1965, pp.191-192 i 262; $ 850