Ordos daggers, knives, and short-swords 17th C. BCE - 3rd C. CE

This is from the Ordos collection of S. C. Tang. The weapons are said to be of Scythian, Xiongnu, and Chinese manufacture. Chinese inhabited the south and east of Ordos, while pastoral nomads (like Scythians and Huns) inhabited the north and west. Ordos is probably the easternmost region the Scythians occupied. Some of these show the influence the different civilizations had on each other's metalworking. 






























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