This has a pair of P-shaped mounts, each attached with three small gold rivets, with an additional pair of holes for attachment to the suspension slings. London, The British Museum, ANE 135738 (,1)Ī heavily corroded iron blade with an asymmetrical curving one-handed gold hilt, and lacking a guard, set the wrong way inside an elaborate gold scabbard. IIIc Wilcox & McBride 1986: 43 Overlaet ed. L 106.5 L of hilt 15.4 W 7.0 (including mount), W of scabbard 4.5 cm. Iron sword with gold hilt, set in a gold scabbard Overlaet, "Swords of the Sasanians, notes on scabbard tips", 'Archaeologia Iranica et Orientalis' (De Meyer, L. also 'Arts de l'Iran Ancien' (Musee Borely, Marseille 1975), no. Others in the Abegg Stiftung in Switzerland cf. 15, and second - more elaborate - example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY ('Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art', 1965, p. Compare with gold scabbard of similar type acquired by the Louvre and published in 'Revue du Louvre' (1967), fig.
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