IDENTIFIERS
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id:	162544
accession number:	TEMP-AA-ARMOURWITHOUTNUMBERS11

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 steel blade is small, single edged and bearded, with a flat square back. It is covered with koftgari silver and partly gilt foil punched with geometrical ornament. The haft is of faceted dark wood with a gilt copper alloy ferrule, medial band and terminal, the latter with a double knop finial, the end fittings punched with floral ornament on a stippled ground, the middle one with bands of geometrical ornament. At the top is a screw which holds the head in place, and a gilt washer shaped like a lotus bud.
title:	axes (tools)

NOTES
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type: history note
value: No provenance obvious


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:	C.B. Marlay?

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/162544


SUBJECTS
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the bhuj and matching tabarzin in this collection
Royal Armouries XXVIC.39 (Richardson 2007: 35).



CATEGORIES
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category: weapons

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1899
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1899
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: mm
value: 520

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 870