trial_description_8:
Broken, half missing.
Sword shaped. "Pommel" on neck set into square base above blade-like shaft (broken). At least one hole through shaft. Perhaps used as bolt for door or lid, inserted into lock and secured with pins.
Cf. Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), p. 5, fig. 1 (Grave 24).
Cf. Corinth XII, nos. 852-6, pl. 63.
Byzantine or Frankish.