234 CHAPTER 3
Only 19 ring-pommel swords are known from the Carpathian Basin, six of them
are double-edged and 11 are single-edged. No differences in their decoration
can be detected, although undecorated variants of ring-pommel swords are
known from Sopron248 (fig. 85/1) and Biharkeresztes.249
Ring-pommel swords’ questions of origin and their eastern analogies will be
discussed in chapter VII.1 in detail.
248 János Gömöri cited Sarmatian analogies for this sword (Gömöri 1976, 143–150).
249 Károly Mesterházy (1987, 231–232) cited early Inner Asian analogies.
Figure 85 Ring pommels: 1. Sopron, téglagyári agyagbánya (Gömöri 1976, 144–145, 10. kép 3,
- kép 3, 20. kép, 21. kép 2; Simon 1991, 304.); 2. Valea lui Mihai–Rétalj (Németi 1983,
145–146., Fig. 8/1; Bóna 1986a, 167; Simon 1991, 310; Cosma 2002, 235., Fig. 265/5.); - Manđelos (Ercegović – Pavlović 1973–74, 108, Fig. 1., I. t. 1, Fig. III/1–3; Mrkobrad
1980, 152, LXXIX/4, 8, 9; Simon 1991, 301–302, 10. kép 1, 15. kép 10.); 4. Bócsa (Fettich 1937,
123, taf. CXIX. 1; Fettich 1951, 71., Taf. LI; László 1955, 228–230; XLIII. T. 1., 11–12, XLIV–XLV.
T. 1–6; Simon 1991, 287, 15. kép 4; Garam 1993, 53–57, Taf. 4–21.).