{"admin":{"added":1592999779000,"created":1312637261000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-158350","indexed":1747160607669,"modified":1714474926000,"processed":1747159409017,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-158350","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/158350","uuid":"50864cb0-8e37-30af-9c0c-066c9bf10c0e","version":6},"categories":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-86575","uid":"adlib-term-86575","uuid":"5649d0d3-83e1-34de-a436-f231b1f04c9b"},"summary_title":"weapons"}],"collection":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-126216","uid":"adlib-term-126216","uuid":"6c7247d5-cf34-3e0d-a07e-9ae6b2743929"},"summary_title":"Robert Taylor"}],"component":[{"materials":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-40136","uid":"adlib-term-40136","uuid":"28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5"},"summary_title":"steel"}}],"name":"Blade"}],"department":{"value":"Applied Arts"},"description":[{"value":"Large steel triangular blade with a very thick reinforced point, running into a triangular medial rib with a V formed by single incised lines at the base. There is evidence of a brazed join between the blade and the socket, which is plain except for two double incised lines in the region of the brazed join by the blade, and two more with a flared rim at the base. There is a hint of a brazed join down one side. The steel is pitted where is has been heavily corroded then polished bright. A fragment of the original wooden haft survives inside the socket"}],"identifier":[{"accession_number":"O.42-1879","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"O.42-1879"},{"priref":"158350","type":"priref","value":"158350"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/158350","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/158350"}],"inscription":[{"method":"inscribed","transcription":[{"value":"42"}],"type":"tag"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"legal":{"credit_line":"Given by Robert Taylor, MA"},"lifecycle":{"acquisition":[{"agents":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-180016","uid":"adlib-agent-180016","uuid":"de4194d2-ab82-3bf8-95cd-a266949bffea"},"summary_title":"Taylor, Robert, MA"}],"date":[{"earliest":1879,"latest":1879,"value":"1879"}],"method":{"value":"given"},"note":[{"value":"Entry date: 1879-02-10"}]}],"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1400,"from":{"earliest":1400,"era":["CE"],"latest":1400,"precision":"circa","value":"1400"},"latest":1500,"note":[{"value":"probably"}],"range":true,"to":{"earliest":1500,"era":["CE"],"latest":1500,"value":"1500"}}],"maker":[{"@link":{"role":[{"value":"maker"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149652","uid":"adlib-agent-149652","uuid":"0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98"},"summary_title":"Unknown"}],"note":[{"value":"Robert Taylor, who collected this spear head in India and gave it the museum, said that it would have been attached to a bamboo pole, 14 feet long (4.2 metres), and used to attack riders on elephants."}],"periods":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-107270","uid":"adlib-term-107270","uuid":"98ebf37f-42ba-3d8c-b75f-102d703acef1"},"summary_title":"15th Century"}],"places":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-126223","uid":"adlib-term-126223","uuid":"152dd0e7-92aa-3117-b8f0-f667f1b8b81e"},"hierarchies":[[{"@link":{"type":"literal"},"name":[{"value":"India"}],"summary_title":"India","type":"country"}]],"summary_title":"South India"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"dimension":"Blade Length","units":"cm","value":"30"},{"dimension":"Blade Width Max","units":"cm","value":"7.6"},{"dimension":"Overall Length","units":"cm","value":"47"},{"dimension":"Weight","units":"g","value":"645"}]},"name":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-47391","uid":"adlib-term-47391","uuid":"d8f9581b-d324-34c6-b40c-8293e7418680"},"summary_title":"spearhead"},"type":"object name"},{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-126218","uid":"adlib-term-126218","uuid":"5c8f101c-7368-3b5a-a61d-702fe0e8b92d"},"summary_title":"Indian weapons"},"type":"category"},{"value":"sang"}],"note":[{"type":"history note","value":"Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004)"}],"owners":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"publications":[{"@link":{"notes":"Ref. pp. 217-221 for information about the Tanjore army","page":"217\u2013221","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"publication-6091","uid":"adlib-publication-6091","uuid":"ce3764f9-3776-306c-8b0c-0ff51f18c97f"},"summary_title":"Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865"},{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"publication-6089","uid":"adlib-publication-6089","uuid":"762534e6-b9a6-3c98-ad56-fac315162b46"},"summary_title":"List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879"}],"summary":{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-47391","uid":"adlib-term-47391","uuid":"d8f9581b-d324-34c6-b40c-8293e7418680"},"summary_title":"spearhead"}},"summary_title":"spearhead","type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}