Afghani pulwar: old and ( perhaps) revealing

[mahratt]

Originally Posted by Battara

It does remind me of a rounded poppy. Interesting.

Jose
Thank you for confirming that everything is in order with my eyesight

Ariel is right when he says that "Google Images finds them in ~10% of cases", when referring to the spherical pommels of pulwars sword
(But this is a monitoring based on swords of the 19th and early 20th centuries).
But, perhaps Ariel did not understand me, because of my bad English. Undoubtedly, the shape of the pommel, as on his sword, is quite archaic (although I would not rush and date the sword with the 16-17th century, since this shape of the hilt was preserved even later).
I just support the opinion of Ibrahiim, who believes that the spherical shape of the hilt top (pommel) can be more archaic than hemispherical ... A confirmation of this (in my opinion) is that on miniatures of the 15-16th century spherical pommel swords are found as often , like hemispherical. And sometimes spherical pommel swords are found on miniatures even more often than hemispherical.

P.S. I apologize for my bad English.
If need to explain something from my words, I will try to do it.