1592999783000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-158402 1747160610383 1714474918000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-158402 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158402 fa722b78-d5e1-3abb-b3bf-670ce959daae 5 reference term-86575 adlib-term-86575 5649d0d3-83e1-34de-a436-f231b1f04c9b weapons reference term-126216 adlib-term-126216 6c7247d5-cf34-3e0d-a07e-9ae6b2743929 Robert Taylor reference term-40136 adlib-term-40136 28e1cd6e-7c25-339f-8cd2-2aaae536a0c5 steel Blade Applied Arts The leaf-shaped steel blade is straight and double edged, flaring towards the rounded point. The hilt comprises a figure-8 guard, angled across the centre, with cusped wings and long blade-shaped reinforces, the edges serrated, bordered towards the hilt and on the wings with incised panels of floral ornament. They are attached by three rivets. Round the junction of the wings and reinforces is a band of copper alloy, the edges also serrated.. The thin grip swells to a central moulding, and there is a small, deep dish pommel lacking its dome. The hilt is covered with black paint, the blade polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion O.87-1879 1 accession number O.87-1879 158402 priref 158402 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158402 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/158402 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Robert Taylor, MA reference agent-180016 adlib-agent-180016 de4194d2-ab82-3bf8-95cd-a266949bffea Taylor, Robert, MA 1879 1879 1879 given Entry date: 1879-02-10 1500 1500 CE 1500 circa 1500 1600 possibly 1 1600 CE 1600 1600 maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown The south Indian type and the style and condition suggest this is a Taylor piece. Number assigned by elimination by TR; object needs numbering. reference term-106602 adlib-term-106602 bbb4c00f-eefa-3d64-9441-7a75aa07736e 16th Century reference term-126223 adlib-term-126223 152dd0e7-92aa-3117-b8f0-f667f1b8b81e literal India India country South India Blade Length cm 90 Overall Length cm 100.5 Weight g 1010 reference term-42208 adlib-term-42208 56bdf465-22ee-3b51-a8c4-fe4a29b1ca93 sword object name reference term-126218 adlib-term-126218 5c8f101c-7368-3b5a-a61d-702fe0e8b92d Indian weapons category khanda history note Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation: Elgood 2004) reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Ref. pp. 217-221 for information about the Tanjore army 217-221 reference publication-6091 adlib-publication-6091 ce3764f9-3776-306c-8b0c-0ff51f18c97f Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865 reference publication-6089 adlib-publication-6089 762534e6-b9a6-3c98-ad56-fac315162b46 List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879

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