{"admin":{"added":1592999779000,"created":1312637261000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-158376","indexed":1753812170037,"modified":1714474921000,"processed":1753812119276,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-158376","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/158376","uuid":"4c37662e-be8d-328c-b790-ee94e4636f53","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"}],"department":{"value":"Applied Arts"},"description":[{"value":"Sacrificial sword. Heavy forward curved blade swept up to a knop finial at the point, with a lotus bud finial half way down the back, and large carved moulding in the form of a bloated horse with a small head and two legs, on its back, at the junction with the hilt. The grip is short and straight, of red wood turned with mouldings with a squashed globular pommel. At the end is a tang button with a large iron lotus bud washer. The blade is rough and has corroded patches"}],"identifier":[{"accession_number":"O.66-1879","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"O.66-1879"},{"priref":"158376","type":"priref","value":"158376"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/158376","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/158376"}],"inscription":[{"method":"inscribed","transcription":[{"value":"66"}],"type":"tag"},{"description":[{"value":"adhesive"}],"location":"on the blade","method":"printed","transcription":[{"value":"66"}],"type":"label"}],"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":1800,"from":{"earliest":1800,"era":["CE"],"latest":1800,"precision":"circa","value":"1800"},"latest":1879,"range":true,"to":{"earliest":1879,"era":["CE"],"latest":1879,"value":"1879"}}],"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":"Taylor\u2019s note \u2018sacrificial knives khurug\u2019.No eye decoration at the point. Compare Rawson 1967: ?? and Egerton 1880: 102, pl. ix."},{"value":"This strangely shaped sword was used to cut off the heads of sacrificial animals. It was important that this was done in a single blow and these weapons, with their large, heavy blades were ideal for this purpose."}],"periods":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-106853","uid":"adlib-term-106853","uuid":"25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415"},"summary_title":"19th Century"}],"places":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-126244","uid":"adlib-term-126244","uuid":"4581b6dd-0c63-357f-901d-c91298dc2919"},"hierarchies":[[{"@link":{"type":"literal"},"name":[{"value":"India"}],"summary_title":"India","type":"country"}]],"summary_title":"North India"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"dimension":"Blade Length","units":"cm","value":"56.6"},{"dimension":"Overall Length","units":"cm","value":"75"},{"dimension":"Weight","units":"g","value":"1125"}]},"name":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-42208","uid":"adlib-term-42208","uuid":"56bdf465-22ee-3b51-a8c4-fe4a29b1ca93"},"summary_title":"sword"},"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":"ram dao"}],"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":{"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"},{"@link":{"notes":"Cf. pl. ix, p. 102.","page":"102","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"publication-6093","uid":"adlib-publication-6093","uuid":"09971ef7-6678-310d-972c-447affe6050d"},"summary_title":"An Illustrated Handbook of Indian arms"}],"summary":{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-42208","uid":"adlib-term-42208","uuid":"56bdf465-22ee-3b51-a8c4-fe4a29b1ca93"},"summary_title":"sword"}},"summary_title":"sword","type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}