Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons. Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology

308 CHAPTER 6 directly from the remote regions of Inner Asia. Theories of Inner Asian origin mostly connected to the so-called ‘ ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 309 of an example of this spearhead type from Környe,19 as well as examples from graves No. 710 an ...

310 CHAPTER 6 their blade is shorter than the socket and no connecting chap can be observed, and they are different from the so- ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 311 in the forest-steppe variant of the Saltovo culture, though the blade of these spearheads is l ...

312 CHAPTER 6 weapons with two-point suspension but also swords vertically suspended by scabbard slides38 which are often repres ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 313 P-shaped suspension loops and two-point suspension are also well known in Eastern Europe, from ...

314 CHAPTER 6 Trosino and Nocera Umbra,51 and from a sword from southern Italy covered with silver foils.52 Two representations ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 315 1.3 Ring-pommel Swords Ring-pommel swords are known not only from the Avar-age Carpathian Basi ...

316 CHAPTER 6 Ring-pommel swords became common from the 4th century AD and remained in use until the 8th century in the Far East ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 317 (the ruler’s title) accepting embassadors from various countries.75 A number of those depicted ...

318 CHAPTER 6 the reverse which is clear evidence for its Byzantine origin.83 This feature led Oleksij Komar to classify this sw ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 319 Sabres were first used as evidence for the migration of the Onogurs dur- ing the Middle phase ...

320 CHAPTER 6 These observations led to a notable change in the nature of research on sabres: instead of focussing on migration ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 321 Caucasian close combat weapons.105 In his dissertation on Saltovo culture horse burials and ot ...

322 CHAPTER 6 of the kurgan from Sivashovka, dated to the first half of the 7th century.113 The ring-pommel sword from Malaia Pe ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 323 Contemporary with this, sabres also appeared along the river Kuban in the Pontic region.121 Ho ...

324 CHAPTER 6 The gold fittings and the crossguard covered with gold with precious stone inlay of the Glodosy find is of an extr ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 325 Gavritukhin dated the Voznesenka horizon to the last third of the 7th century, contemporary wi ...

326 CHAPTER 6 are known in Transoxiana (Afrasiab),147 while this feature only spread in the region of the Caucasus, Kuban and Vo ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 327 can be assumed for reed-shaped spearheads with connecting chap and grid- patterned rings, sinc ...