IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158305
accession number:	O.165-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 12 May 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Of steel, and of massive proportion, the blade is curved and double edged, with two deep and two shallow fullers at the centre, and a heavy reinforced point. It is joined to the socket by a massive langet, chiselled with dragons’ heads at either side of a lotus bud. The socket itself is faceted, with bands of chiselled foliage, and three mouldings, at the blade of roped, hatched and beaded ornament, in the centre of beaded ornament between ribs of roping, and at the end a seven-stage stepped ornamental band of beading, roping and bands of foliage. The whole is bright with little pitting.
title:	spearhead

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From Madura


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Robert Taylor
creditline: Given by Robert Taylor, MA

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158305





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1580 - 1600
creation date earliest:	1580
creation date latest:	1600
culture:	16th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 49

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 1575



CITATIONS
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List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879
Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865
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