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