Combination scabbard/quivers

[Mirimaran]

http://www.atarn.org/subject_index.htm

Some tutorials on making eastern quivers and the like. Enjoy!

Ken

[Odigan]

The Scythians, I think, had sword sheaths integral to arrow quivers on occasion, although their swords were rather short and they did not, so far as I know, use back quivers. Still, integral sword sheath and arrow quivers are not entirely unknown. I should probably hunt up the source for that so you folks can have a gander for yourselves.

Antony Karasulas mentions this in Mounted archers of the Steppe 600 BC-AD 1300, though he references a depiction of a Parthian, who has an "...all-in-one bow and arrow quiver (called a gorytos by the Greeks) typical of the Scythian peoples to this time. This example has a built in dagger sheath."

[Eledhwen]

Bow and arrow quivers as one piece entities were common with the Central Asian and 'Near Eastern' peoples...Scythians, Sarmatians, Achaemenid and Sassanian Persians, and so on.

Less common were sword quivers combined..and I suspect more often they were either worn on the same side or strapped together rather than being one single piece. The Scythians had the akinakes, a kind of longknife-shortsword which was most often lashed to the thigh...or so it seems.

I'll have a turn through my source materials this weekend, see what I turn up.

Eledhwen