Szabó Miklós, Petres F. Éva: Decorated weapons on the La Tene Iron Age in the Carpathian Basin. (Inventaria Praehistorica Hungariae 5; Budapest, 1992)
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Scabbard Length. 35 cm. Breadth of blade. 4 cm. Length of socket. 8.3 cm. The willowleaf shaped blade has a marked midrib. One rivet on the socket. Rapin's Type la, "forme classique" . Design. Incised geometric and postWaldalgesheim palmette pattern on the socket. Literature. Unpublished. 70. TALIÁNDÖRÖGD (County Veszprém). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find, acquired from an antiquities dealer. WNM, inv. no. 47839 (PL 74). Scabbard Length. Cca. 63 cm.Breadth. 5 cm. Mouth. Subtriangular form, 1.8 cm. Midrib. Broad, salient. Overlaps. Front over back, overlapped along its entire length. Reinforce. None. Loop. Type IA, band-shaped, 2.3 cm long by 1 cm broad, ornamented with dotted and plain lines. Loop-plates. Round, ornamented with dotted lines. Chape-clamps. Round. Chape-bridge. None. Chape-end. Missing (?). Cha"inage. Stippled background to the dragonpair. Design, lai+5; Nav. II. Sword Total length. 70 cm. Total length of hilt. 12 cm (?). Breadth. 6 cm. The tang is surmounted by a disc-button. Literature. Hunyady (1942-44) 111; ECA, No. 121, PL 70; De Navarro (1972) Pis CXXVIII.2ab, CXXIX. 3, see also Index of Sites; KKM, 80, Fig. I; Szabó (1977) 214, Fig. 4; Bulard (1979) 31, Fig. 2.2; Petres (1982) 162, 168, Fig. 1; Megaw-Megaw (1989a) 126 f, Fig. 182, (below); Szabó (1989b) 120121, Fig. 1.1. 71. TAPOLCA-SZENTKÚT 1 (formerly HALÁPHEGY) (County Veszprém). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find, possibly from an inhumation burial. Local historical collection of the village of Sáska (PL 75.2). Scabbard Length. 65.2 cm. Breadth. 6 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , normal campanulate variety, 1.5 cm, upper border of Type 7. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Back over front. Reinforce. None. Loop. Type IIIA, 2.5 cm long by 1.8 cm broad. Loop-plates. Shield-shaped. Chape-clamps. None. Chape-bridge. Straight, bilateral. Chapeend. Type Kosd C. Total length of chape. 17 cm. Design. 2bi; HSS, phase 1 + Waldalgesheim tendril. Sword Total length. 73.8 cm. Total length of hilt. 10 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.4 cm. Hilt end. Fits to a normal campanulate mouth. The tang is surmounted by a large knob. Literature. KKM, Cat. no. 78; Horváth (1987) 127, PL XXXVII.2-3; Frey-Megaw (1976) 56, 58, Fig. 8.2; Szabó (1977) 218, Fig. 8b; Szabó (1982) 185, Fig. 10 (detail). 72. TAPOLCA-SZENTKÚT 2 (County Veszprém). Sword. Stray find, possibly from an inhumation burial. Local historical collection of the village of Sáska (PL 75.1). Sword Length. 78.5 cm. Length of hilt. 11.5 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.9 cm. Hilt-end. Fits to a subcampanulate mouth. The tang is surmounted by a knob ornamented on both sides. Leaf motifs flanking a mask. HSS. Literature. Horváth (1987) 127, Pl. XXXVII. 1. 73. ZALAEGERSZEG-ANDRÁSHIDA (formerly ANDRÁSHIDA, County Zala). Anthropoid hilted dagger. Stray find from the area of a cemetery. ZGM, inv. no. 50.11.1 (PL 76). Dagger Iron hilt with iron blade. The hilt consists of four parts. Y-shaped limbs, a biconic knob in the middle and the sunken head. The four parts were drawn on the iron tang of the dagger. Hair, eyes and mouth are marked on the sunken head. Total length. 44.6 cm. Total length of hilt. 11 cm. Breadth of hilt. 8 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.4 cm. Traces of gold inlay on the blade. Literature. Korek (1960) 68; KKM, 51, Fig. 93, Cat. no. 93; Petres (1979) 171 f, 177, PL 1.1; Horváth (1987) 129 ff, Figs 53-54. 74. UNKNOWN PROVENANCE. Scabbard with its sword. Stray find. MNM, 86.2.1 (PL 77). Scabbard Present maximum length. 48 cm. Breadth. 4.7 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , high campanulate variety, 1.8 cm, reshaped. Midrib. Salient. Overlaps. Front over back., overlapped to its tip. Loop. Type Ic, arched, 2 cm long by 1.2 cm broad, framed with incised lines. Loop-plates. Round, with two rivets, the left half of the upper plate is cut off. Chape-clamps, chape-bridge. None. Chape-end. Missing. Design, lai; Nav.
