a few exhibitions/articles, great photos

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Originally Posted by Tim Simmons

I think you are right. It will not be the first time a wrongly catalouged item is repeatedly presented by museum staff; some are indeed highly educatated and very knowledgeable. On the over hand many have nothing else to go on except the previous generations erroneous labeling and legacies from the turn of the 19/20th centuries cataloguing, something I might add we all come across.

Well, in one of the exhibits a straight Qajar Revival sword is presented as Zu-l-fiqar, but then I think in SFI forums somebody mentioned that Astvatsaturian is the head of the St. Petersburg Ethnographic museum. However, the sword in question from the Uzbek display to me at least appears to be misplaced. If it turns out to be a flyssa, how it made its way into the royal arsenals of the Tsars is a whole different question.