Fig. 225.—Persian Acinaces.
(Here worn on right side.)
Fig. 226.—Persian Acinaces.
Fig. 227.—Sword from Mithras Group.
Fig. 228.—Sword in Relief, Persepolis Sculptures.
The Indians, afterwards so celebrated for their Swords, were in b.c. 480 barbarians dressed in cottons and armed with only cane bows and arrows. Of the twelve peoples who supplied the one thousand two hundred and seven triremes, the Egyptians had long cutlasses, the Cilicians ‘Swords closely resembling the cutlass of the Egyptians,’ the Lycians[694] daggers and curved falchions, and the Carians daggers and ‘enses falcati,’ which apparently were not used by the Greeks (chap. xciii.).
Fig. 229.—Persian Acinaces.