- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Yataghan with curved and grooved steel blade, finely incised patterns on each side. Bilobed horn grip. [LM 04/04/2007]
- Long description
- Yataghan with curved and grooved steel blade, finely incised patterns on each side. Bilobed horn grip. Blade and grip are decorated with sheets of repoussé ?silver-copper alloy with leaf pattern; 3 square knobs of same metal on grip. [LM 04/04/2007]
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
- Date / Period
- Date made: Possibly before 1874 Archaeological period: Medieval, uncertain
- Date collected
- ?By 1874
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1884
- Materials and processes
- Material Steel Metal, Material Animal Horn, Material Silver Metal, Material Copper Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Incised, Process Repoussé
- Dimensions
- Length: max 720 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1884.24.116 Other numbers: XIII HB PR Cat other PR nos: 1241
- Research and responses
Possibly collected by Pitt Rivers during his service in the Crimea War [1853-56] in 1854 [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]
1884.24.116
Yataghan with curved and grooved steel blade, finely incised patterns on each side. Bilobed horn grip. [LM 04/04/2007]
On display
1884.24.116
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