Antenna dagger
An antenna dagger is a dagger or short sword with a pommel usually forged in one piece , a special antenna pommel . The ends of the pommel are crescent to ring-shaped or spiral-shaped or curled upwards and form a horn-shaped or snail-shaped appearance. The arch ends are often decorated with balls or knobs. Antenna daggers were made around 1800 BC. Until about 500 BC Made and used in the Bronze Age and the Iron Age . The handle scales were made of wood or horn and are very rarely preserved.
Bronze aerial swords from Auvernier and Cortaillod
Iron antenna dagger with sheath from Siedelberg - Pfaffstätt , Hallstatt culture, in the Linz Castle Museum
Antenna dagger of the Celts
Other variants can be found under the term shank of prehistoric knives, daggers and swords .
literature
- Gerhard Seifert, technical terms of edged weapons. German ABC of the European naked defensive weapons. (Cut, thrust, hit and hand thrown weapons). Verlag Seifert, Haig 1981.
- Peter Prüssing, The knife in northern West Germany: (Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lower Saxony) , Verlag CH Beck, 1982, ISBN 9783406080692 , page 90 books.google.de Peter Prüssing: The knife in northern West Germany
- Alexandru Vulpe, The short swords, daggers and combat knives of the Hallstatt Period in Romania , Part 6, Volume 9, Prehistoric Bronze Finds, Volume 9 of Prehistoric Bronze Finds: Division VI, ISBN 978-3-406-33657-7