Subject: irregular armored cavalryman
Culture: Turco-Iranian
Setting: civil war, Zand-Qajar Persia 18th-early 19thc
Object: khanjar dagger
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Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Dagger (khanjar) Persian, 19th century This blade is of a rare and unusual type.
The point is split and formed into five small blades, the centre one swollen into an armour-piercing type." ...
* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Dagger (khanjar) Persian, 19th century Weapons from the Middle East often have Koranic inscriptions or excerpts from poems as part of their decoration. The carved ivory hilt on this khanjar has a Persian verse:
Shining is the sharp blade Its name is yataghan. That which splits a thorn Is the amazing khanjar." ...
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Dagger (khanjar) Persian, 19th century Although weapons like this were functional
they were often constructed from precious and semi-precious materials. The hilt is made of ivory and the blade is double-edged.
The scabbard is decorated with silver gilt mounts the fronts of which are incised with floral scrolls, fretted and backed with silver foil." ...
