LOT 90 A Safavid gold damascened steel sword (shamshir) Persia, dated AH 1135/ AD 1722-3
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90 cm. long
A Safavid gold damascened steel sword (shamshir) Persia, dated AH 1135/ AD 1722-3
the single-edged watered-steel blade of curved form with engraved inscription-filled cartouche to one side, the crossguard of watered steel decorated in gold inlay with an inscription-filled cartouche to each side, the tops and bottoms of the guards engraved with scrolling foliate motifs, the steel centres of the grips decorated in gold inlay with a series of inscription-filled cartouches, horn grips, the steel pommel decorated in gold inlay with floral motifs and inscription-filled cartouches 90 cm. long
|Inscriptions: Qur'an, chapter LXI (al-Saff), part of verse 13; invocations to God, ya jabbar!/ya mannan!/ya dayyan!, 'O The all-Compelling!/ O The Propitious!/ O The Requiter!'; in the last cartouche: sanah [1]135, 'The year [1]135.'For a similarly decorated but later shamshir in the Military Museum of Tehran see Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani, Arms and Armour from Iran, Germany, 2006, p. 532, cat. 154.
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