Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Four Middle Eastern daggers (jambiya), each with broad curved blade with medial ridge: i) a Syrian example, silver hilt of waisted form with squared pommel and chased with foliage, silver mounted scabbard with applied camel to the small chape; ii) an Omani dagger from Muscat, silver clad horn hilt, silver embellished scabbard; iii) two Yemeni examples, studded wooden hilts, leather scabbards, each complete with a richly embroidered waist belt. [4]