Thread:The Indomitable/@comment-26184570-20160313043018/@comment-26184570-20160314152901

Aramirtheranger wrote: That's not a gladius, xiphos, or shotel. It's a spatha with an unusual pommel, probably made for a Jew in the late Roman Empire, possibly Ashkenazim. Ashkenazim didn't really exist until after the Romans. When the Second Temple was destroyed, and the Romans conquered Judea, that's when the Diaspora started, but the Jews that fled to Eastern Europe (Ashkenazim) didn't actually get there until the Early Middle Ages. Before then, they just sort of wandered around the Levant and Central Asia.