Antenna knob
The antenna pommel is a pommel shape that is a feature of antenna daggers .
description
The ends of this pommel were bent sickle to oval or ring-shaped upwards. It was a flat piece of metal on which two sides were thinly forged and then bent or rolled upwards. This created the shape of horns or snails on the side parts. With these pieces the pommel was covered at the end. The antenna knob was built around 1800 BC. Until about 500 BC Used. The form later revived in the 13th and 14th centuries; in addition, some variants of the ring knob dagger are assigned to the antenna knob.
literature
- Peter Prüssing: The Knives in Northern West Germany: (Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Lower Saxony) , Verlag CH Beck, 1982, ISBN 978-3-406-08069-2 .
- 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.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Seifert: Technical Terms of Edged Weapons ( Memento of January 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), 2007 edition (online PDF 2.0 MB).
- ↑ Peter Prüssing: The Knives in Northern West Germany , pages 90 ff. ( Partial preview online )