Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

λ Five Syrian daggers (jambiya), each with a stout curved blade, banded and mosaic decorated hilts formed of bone, brass, ebonised wood and other materials; one example having Arabic text etched to the forte and a crescent motifs in green material to the hilt; another with unusually slender blade and bands of miniature balusters to the hilt. [5]