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

328 CHAPTER 6 These spearheads cannot be regarded as special Byzantine artefacts, although they were generally used in this area ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 329 cast of copper alloy to be the main attribute for Byzantine origin, indepen- dently of the bla ...

330 CHAPTER 6 with the deceased. This difference again suggests the foreign origin of the deceased buried with weapons.180 Their ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 331 the blade.188 The crossguard on the sword was forged of iron but covered with a layer of coppe ...

332 CHAPTER 6 loop is known: the so-called David plate of the Cyprus treasure, the sword of Goliath being suspended at two point ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 333 from Baden-Württemberg. She suggested that these types appeared in the Merovingian kingdoms as ...

334 CHAPTER 6 or Anatolia, therefore a common Byzantine origin of these spearheads is not yet proven. Lenticular spearheads with ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 335 Late Roman and Byzantine army.211 Spathae were widely distributed during the Early Middle Ages ...

336 CHAPTER 6 3.2 Middle and Late Phase Contemporary with the northwestern extension of the Avar settlement area, the intensity ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 337 Avar spearheads by Jozef Zábojník.229 It is important to note that spearheads from Avar cemete ...

338 CHAPTER 6 their original dating was either too early233 or too broad.234 The function of the wings was first identified as a ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 339 by Christoph Steinacker in his MA thesis (1998 in Freiburg), a part of which has been publishe ...

340 CHAPTER 6 suggested a continuous development from the Late Roman examples until the end of the 7th century, but emphasised t ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 341 Carpathian Basin. Instead they seem to be imported weapons from a period when these weapon bur ...

342 CHAPTER 6 earlier than the 9th century.269 This sword is later than the so-called Schlingen type, which is characterised by ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 343 sizes of seaxes was first recognised by Edmund Brenner.276 Hermann Stoll first emphasised the ...

344 CHAPTER 6 an addition to formal attributes in the classification of these weapons. He also made the important observation th ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 345 by János Győző Szabó who regarded them as weapons, though he rejected any relationship to seax ...

346 CHAPTER 6 seaxes only appeared during the first half of the 8th century in the Carpathian Basin, and are not yet known from ...

Origins And Cultural Contacts 347 Basin and that of the Eastern European steppes, and any change would make the latter even long ...