Sword (Shamshir)
date: label: Accession Date
content: 16 Mar 1961
name: label: Donor Name
content: Estate Of John O. La Gorce
notes: label: Notes
content: Information from Leonid Lantsman, 2014: 19th C. Ottoman Turkish broadsword. Handle mounted with large rhinocerous horn scales. Scabbard is ass-skin with "ladder of Allah" wire pattern. Chape and top scabbard fitting are Syrian style work with silver koftgari. The twin scabbard hanging mounts are Persian. Blade is chiseled throughout with Kufic script caligraphy and sharp on edge with a false edge. Blade is likely 19th C. Ottoman provincial work appoximating an older 14th century style.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Jul 2016
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Turkey (Türkiye), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 229198
label: USNM Number
content: E398846-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sword