Small-sword with scenes from the Old Testament, The blackened iron hilt is entirely adorned with chiseled ornaments in mainly high relief: dragon heads, human figures and hymns, the most important images of which are scenes from the Old Testament, on the hilt knob God the Father on a cloud and Lot and his daughters, on the parry block Adam and Eve in paradise and Cain and Abel, at the bottom of the riser the temptation and expulsion from paradise, on top of sending the dove with an ark with a cross on top and Noah sacrificing to God, the fist guard has the shape of a dragon, the wooden handle

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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