Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Sword with Persian style decoration in the Topkapi Saray

Aqtai · 21st June 2005, 03:34 PM

I've just been reading Unsal Yucel's book. I see what you mean about the gold dots. So the sword in plate 16 probably is Ummayyad or Abbassid, Yucel does say that it has 3 gold dots on the blade. The decoration clearly is not Ummayyad/Abbassid.

The sword in plate 21 doesn't seem to have the dots however. It also has grooves on the blade. Yucel does say on page 56 that Ummayyad/Abbassid sword do not have grooves. Sword 21 therefore seems to be post-Abbassid.

Maybe I should rephrase my question by asking about the time and place of origin of that style of decoration.

21st June 2005, 03:34 PM	#20
Aqtai Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Merseyside, UK Posts: 222	I've just been reading Unsal Yucel's book. I see what you mean about the gold dots. So the sword in plate 16 probably is Ummayyad or Abbassid, Yucel does say that it has 3 gold dots on the blade. The decoration clearly is not Ummayyad/Abbassid. The sword in plate 21 doesn't seem to have the dots however. It also has grooves on the blade. Yucel does say on page 56 that Ummayyad/Abbassid sword do not have grooves. Sword 21 therefore seems to be post-Abbassid. Maybe I should rephrase my question by asking about the time and place of origin of that style of decoration.