Single-edged blades with a ridge

bookandswordblog · Yesterday, 12:02 AM

The Greek and Anatolian barbarian blades with a T-section seem concentrated in the 6th century BCE too although I have seen them as late as the 4th century. I am trying to avoid general claims until I have actually looked at the hundred or so known examples, because typologies don't always follow all their own rules when you start to look at them. Ewart Oakeshott was not the first or last to define a type then put objects in it which don't meet the definition.

Yesterday, 12:02 AM	#9
bookandswordblog Member Join Date: Mar 2026 Posts: 8	The Greek and Anatolian barbarian blades with a T-section seem concentrated in the 6th century BCE too although I have seen them as late as the 4th century. I am trying to avoid general claims until I have actually looked at the hundred or so known examples, because typologies don't always follow all their own rules when you start to look at them. Ewart Oakeshott was not the first or last to define a type then put objects in it which don't meet the definition.