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Duckbill axe hafts?
Topic Started: Jan 19 2012, 10:43 PM (705 Views)
Jeroen Zuiderwijk
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I've got a mould sitting ready for a duckbill axe. Should it cast well, is there direct evidence for hafts on duckbill axes? I can find examples of hafts for epsilon axes and other types, such as shown below. Without any direct evidence, I'd go for a haft similar to the top one. But naturally a direct example is prefered :)

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Luciën Olinga
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Jeroen,

I googled it simply (which I doubt you haven't tried already but still) and found the following links:

http://forums.silverseek.com/showthread.ph...d-Javelin/page2
http://forums.silverseek.com/showthread.ph...n-project/page2

On the bottom of the first page is a picture of someone who did it in a certain way..
The guy who made it found wallpaintings of the real one..
The page looks actually like a forum just like this one.. :o

Greetings,

Luciën..
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Phil Melhop
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Interesting reading.
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Jeroen Zuiderwijk
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Luci�n Olinga,Jan 20 2012
09:31 AM
Jeroen,

I googled it simply (which I doubt you haven't tried already but still) and found the following links:

http://forums.silverseek.com/showthread.ph...d-Javelin/page2
http://forums.silverseek.com/showthread.ph...n-project/page2

On the bottom of the first page is a picture of someone who did it in a certain way..
The guy who made it found wallpaintings of the real one..
The page looks actually like a forum just like this one.. :o

Greetings,

Luci�n..

I've seen that one, but I'm rather skeptic about the interpretation as a duckbill axe. The detail is to vague to make that kind of conclusion. The haft to me indicates that what's pictured is a throwing axe. The forward curved haft makes sense for stability in flight just like throwing sticks (in the hands of the other warriors), but is very unbalanced in a handheld weapon. While there's nothing to disprove that duckbill axes were throwing weapons, the slightly earlier epsilon axes have straight hafts, indicating handheld weapons. So I'm assuming the same for duckbill axes unless solid evidence shows otherwise.
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