Abstract

This article studies and catalogues a group of ottoman swords decorated with dragon and fish emblems on their hilts. Both animals were associated to the imperial power according the oriental traditon.

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  • Este trabajo estudia y cataloga un grupo de espadas otomanas decoradas con dragones y peces en sus empuñaduras

  • Among the ambassadorial party was the German artist Melchior Lorichs, who produced a series of engravings depicting the city and various Ottoman dignitaries

  • The sultan is girded with a saber on the hilt of which is the image of a dragon (Illustration 1). Surviving swords bearing this emblem are rare, other dragon imagery is common on Islamic swords and sabers

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Este trabajo estudia y cataloga un grupo de espadas otomanas decoradas con dragones y peces en sus empuñaduras. The guard of steel has hilt and scabbard prongs and elongated quillons that flair towards their pierced palmette shaped tips, it is decorated en-suite with the pommel cap and on the quillons is inlaid in gold with Persian inscriptions in nasta6ON script.

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