IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158403
accession number:	O.88-1879

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The steel blade is straight and double edged, flaring towards the point which is slightly cusped. A medial ridge runs the full length, and neither edge is sharp, as each has been flattened to produce a dumb-bell like section. The hilt comprises a figure-8 guard, angled across the centre, with pierced wings and short, heavy blade-shaped reinforces secured by two rivets, the lower ones with petalled washers, and bordered by double incised lines and short sections of incised waves. Round the junction of the wings and reinforces is a band of copper alloy. The thin grip swells to a central moulding, and the pommel is missing. The hilt is covered with black paint, the blade polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion
title:	sword

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see documentation Elgood 2004)


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/158403





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1500 - 1600
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1600
culture:	16th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Blade Length
units: cm
value: 77.3

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 85.2

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 1230



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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