Himyarite Sword
For those who are interested, I took this photo of a Himyarite sword from Yemen 2nd century BC at a show of Yemeni pre-islamic art at the Smithsonian. The hilt looks very much like rhino and the rings remind me a bit of an Omani jambiya. There was also an Omani exhibit at the Folk Life Festival on the Mall where I shot a photo of several Omani kattaras and some tourist jambiyas for sale. The bronze of a Sabean from 700 BC which was in the Yemeni exhibit shows a dagger that looks very much like a Jambiya.
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