Sword and scabbard
- Museum number:
- 9-8a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090008a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 9-8
- Accession number:
- Acc.140
- Description:
- Sword and scabbard; (a) curving steel sword with ivory-covered grip; Arabic (?) inscribed on one side (b) scabbard covered with red velvet and strip of gold metallic thread; metal tip. Cost 311 rupees, purchased in India
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Iran (Persia)
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Persia attr (B. Busch 1976)
- Culture or time period:
- Persians
- Collector:
- Arthur S. Hunt and Bernard P. Grenfell
- Collection date:
- 1903-1904
- Materials:
- Metal and Steel (alloy)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Scabbards
- Function:
- 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
- Accession date:
- 1904
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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