Saddle Axe
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- Titre
- En Saddle Axe
- Fr Hache d'arçon
- Fa Tabarzin
- Type
- Shafted Weapon
- Créateur/ Créatrice
- Unknown
- Identifiant
- 36.25.1794
- Format
- Crucible ("watered") steel, wood, leather, gold
- Dimension
- L. 53.3 cm; Wt. 751 g
- Lieu de découverte
- Iran
- Résumé
- En As the name implies, small axes of this type, tabarzin in Persian, were carried beneath a horseman’s saddle, ready for use in handto-hand combat. The blade of this example is forged from crucible (“watered”) steel and is delicately chiseled with foliage and splitleaf arabesques that point to an eighteenth-century date.
- Date
- ca. 1725–50
- Contribution
- George C. Stone
- Source
- Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935
- Edition
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Arms and Armor)
- Référence
- The Met
- Droits
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Licence
- Public Domain (CC0 1.0 Universal)
- Collections
- A la recherche du ta'zieh