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Crystal sword pommel, Yale University Art Gallery, inv. 1938.5999.74 YUAG 95546. Archaeological object excavated in Dura-Europos by the Yale-French team, 1928-1937, Syria

Italian Sword Pommel in Hyaline Quartz, or better known as Rock Crystal, made between the 14th and 15th centuries. These types of pommels exclusively adorned the swords of Rulers and Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire of the West, who lived between 1300 and 1400.

A fine rock-crystal sword pommel belonging to a Roman spatha was found in the context dated to 256-257 AD, amidst bodies of the fallen Roman soldiers in the Tower 19 countermine at Dura Europos (James 2004, 141-142).

2003年12月4日 · Medieval swords with hardstone pommels are extremely rare. A sword of similar date with a jasper wheel-pommel was sold Sotheby’s Sussex, 15th July 1996, lot 42, £22,425. A rock-crystal wheel-pommel of similar form and now detached is preserved in the Royal Armouries, Leeds. See A. R.Dufty 1974, p.18, plate 23.

2024年3月31日 · You're right most of them are ivory, but I agree there's a later type A sort of sword with a pommel made of Lapis lacedaemonius, and a type A dagger with a crystal pommel on the same site. I believe Salimbeti is a university professor of some kind, so I would regard his work as reliable! In any case, there's no way I'd be able to make one of ivory.

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Title: Sword Pommel. Date: ca. 1400. Culture: Italian. Medium: Rock crystal. Dimensions: Diam. 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm); D. 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm); Wt. 4.5 oz. (127.6 g) Classification: Swords-Accessories. Credit Line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942. Object Number: 42.50.159

thirteenth-century pommel bearing Crusader heraldry, is a sword pommel in the Metropolitan’s collection decorated in champlevé enamel with the coat of arms of Pierre de Dreux, called Mauclerc (1191–1250), duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond (Figure#4). Dreux was …

A pommel is a counterweight added to the end of a sword. Predominately iron or steel but also of bronze and even precious metals and crystal are known at various times. Pommels might have incised or inlaid decorations but this is very rare after about the 11th century .