Subject: irregular armored cavalryman
Culture: Turco-Iranian
Setting: civil war, Zand-Qajar Persia mid-late 18thc
Object: mezraq lance
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* National Museum of Scotland > Royal Museum
"ARMS AND ARMOUR Iran 18th-19th Centuries [...]
Essential weapons include steel spearpoints decorated in gold and silver inlay."
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
[left] "Three-pronged Spear Steel, damascened with gold; wood
Iranian, Qajar Period, 19th century
Inscribed in Arabic: 'Made by Muhammad Hasan'"
[right] "Spear Steel, gold
Indian or Iranian, 19th century"
