IDENTIFIERS
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id:	162562
accession number:	TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS28

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 18 June 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Of steel for the left arm, comprising a gutter-shaped plate rounded at the elbow, decorated with chevrons of floral ornament etched and in silver koftgari, and bands of Koranic verses round the border lined with red cotton and bordered with green and yellow tape, with two buckles and a strap loop at the lower edge and one buckle on the upper. The hand defence is of butted mail over thin leather. Two detached wrist plates joined by butted mail also survive.
title:	Arm defence

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

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162562





CATEGORIES
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category: armour
category: Persian armour

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1899
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1899


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: mm
value: 520

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 464