A Viking Sword With Inscribed Blade in a Moscow (?) Museum

Jeff Pringle · 3rd September 2009, 06:12 PM

Jake!

Thanks for logging in on this topic! I was going to email you about this as soon as I had gathered my thoughts a little, there is some Cyrillic mystery here I’m sure you can resolve.
Do you have Kirpicnikov’s work on the old Rus weaponry “Drevnerusskoe oruze?” You would really like vol. 2 on axes and spears!
Кирпичников А.Н. - Древнерусское оружие. Т. 1. Мечи и сабли IX-XIII вв & Т. 2. Копья, сулицы, боевые топоры, булавы, кистени IX-XIII вв.
Свoд aрхеoлoгических истoчникoв, E1-36. Нaукa. Мoсквa-Ленингрaд.

I was able to locate a PDF version (by googling “Кирпичников Древнерусское оружие”), and this sword is pictured therein, Plate XVII # 4 (as well as Plate XIX #s 1+2) with the caption below calling it out as (I presume) GIM Inv. # 12/1. However, in the catalog of swords starting on p.73/74 of the pdf, #16 is a type H (column 6), there is Mr. Sizov again in column 3, so you’d think that is the sword in question; but the inventory # is 117/85. In that table, Inv. # 12/1 shows up in the row for # 43, listed as a type E sword. Which do you think is the correct inventory #?

3rd September 2009, 06:12 PM	#7
Jeff Pringle Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 189	Jake! Thanks for logging in on this topic! I was going to email you about this as soon as I had gathered my thoughts a little, there is some Cyrillic mystery here I’m sure you can resolve. Do you have Kirpicnikov’s work on the old Rus weaponry “Drevnerusskoe oruze?” You would really like vol. 2 on axes and spears! Кирпичников А.Н. - Древнерусское оружие. Т. 1. Мечи и сабли IX-XIII вв & Т. 2. Копья, сулицы, боевые топоры, булавы, кистени IX-XIII вв. Свoд aрхеoлoгических истoчникoв, E1-36. Нaукa. Мoсквa-Ленингрaд. I was able to locate a PDF version (by googling “Кирпичников Древнерусское оружие”), and this sword is pictured therein, Plate XVII # 4 (as well as Plate XIX #s 1+2) with the caption below calling it out as (I presume) GIM Inv. # 12/1. However, in the catalog of swords starting on p.73/74 of the pdf, #16 is a type H (column 6), there is Mr. Sizov again in column 3, so you’d think that is the sword in question; but the inventory # is 117/85. In that table, Inv. # 12/1 shows up in the row for # 43, listed as a type E sword. Which do you think is the correct inventory #?