When the wound was made, & the instrument was withdrawn, the pain seemed undiminished, for the air that suddenly rushed into those delicate parts felt like a mass of minute but sharp & forked poniards, that were tearing the edges of the wound.
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Aksumite weapons were mainly made of iron: iron spears, iron swords, and iron knives called poniards. Shields were made of buffalo hide. In the latter part of the 19th century, Ethiopia made a concerted effort to modernize her army. She acquired repeating rifles, artillery, and machine guns.
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Gravestones in shape of stone sheep where were carved scenes related to sheep husbandry, are met in the territory of Yardimli, Lerik, Kalbajar, Fuzuli, Ordubad and other districts of the Azerbaijan SSR, and also in Sisian district of the Armenian SSR. Images on them especially present border scenes, knives for shearing sheep, swords and poniards.
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In Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, scene ii; line 3795), Laertes wagers "six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so" against six Barbary horses owned by King Claudius that in a fencing match Laertes will defeat Hamlet by three or more touches. In the Gothic novel The Monk by Matthew Lewis, the novice monk Rosario threatens to commit suicide with a poignard during an argument with the senior monk Ambrosio.
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The characteristics of the Mughan culture are: # Graves in stone boxes and in the graves. # Graves can be single, clustered, joint – men and women buried together, with a rich and poor inventory. # Cattle-breeding, agriculture and maybe fishing were the main occupations. # Implements and weapons were made of bronze and iron. # Weapons were bronze and iron swords with a bronze two- faucet hilt and bronze poniards with “framed handle” (of Western Asia type).
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Apparently the majority of these products were manufactured in local workshops. The proof is the numerous moulds for casting axes discovered at Leliceni (Harghita County) part of the Jigodin group. Hard to ignore is the often evoked ritual hole at Fântânele, part of the Copăceni group, where were found fragments of moulds for casting metal items (little chisels, poniards, massive axes), testifying that the level of the Baniabic/Vâlcele (Cluj County) type of axe had certainly been attained.
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The causes of this phenomenon are many and diverse (exhaustion of the usual mineral sources, major technological changes, disturbing ethnic reshuffling, etc.). Significantly, the first bronze items (brass alloyed with arsenic, and later tin) now emerged. The archeological sites of this period have uncovered more varied jewelry (hair rings, bracelets, necklaces, pendants made in copper, bronze or gold), poniards, flat axes as well as 'raised margin' axes. Yet the most important achievement of the age is the single-edged axe.
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