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Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt
second half 16th century
- Medium
- Hilt: copper; cast, chased, gilded, and inlaid with rubies. Blade: steel; forged
- Classification
- Arms and Armor
- Dimensions
- H. 15 5/8 in. (39.7 cm)
- Culture
- India
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2011
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
