IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158330
accession number:	O.23-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 1 October 2012

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The whole hilt is missing. The steel blade is narrow, straight and double edged, with a slight full-length medial ridge. Attached to the forte by five rivets are crude reinforces, terminating in slightly onion shaped ends. The tang is thick and of square section, and retains fragments of the wooden lining of the lost grip, as well as spots of vermillion paint.
title:	sword blade

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/158330





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: 107.5

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 118.5

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 760



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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