IDENTIFIERS
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id:	158417
accession number:	O.102-1879

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 with a full length medial rib and a reinforced point. The hilt has a convex guard attached to long, fluted arms ending in lotus bud terminals at the rear, joined by a pair of bars swelling to their centres that form the grip. At the front of the guard are heavy cusped and scalloped reinforces attached to the blade by three rivets. Inside the guard is a raised cusped and scalloped decorative band. The hilt is painted black inside, the rest polished bright and pitted from earlier corrosion. There is a long gash cutting right through the blade
title:	sword

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From Ganjam, 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/158417





CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1600 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th 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: 625



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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