IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158404
accession number:	O.89-1879

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The steel blade is straight, double edged and extended into a long, thin point with a full length medial ridge. The hilt has an angled, convex guard attached to short, wide arms cut with lotus bud terminals at front and rear, joined by a pair of bars swelling to their centres that form the grip. At the front of the guard are heavy katar-shaped reinforces with cusped and scalloped edges, incised lines and pierced holes, secured to the blade by three rivets, two with copper alloy washers which are actively corroding. From the outside of the guard springs a double curved V-section defence for the back of the hand, of terminating in a detailed dragon head finial. The hilt is black from the hammer, the blade and reinforces  polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion.
title:	sword

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From Ganjam. Probably from the Tanjore armoury, broken up in 1860 (see docuentation 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/158404





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: 81.5

dimension: Overall Length
units: cm
value: 95

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 825



CITATIONS
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Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865
List of arms presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Robert Tayler, Esq. February 10 1879
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