Subject: savar knight
Culture: Sassanid Persian
Setting: Byzantine, Arab wars, 532-651
Object: akinakes sword
* Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Sword and scabbard
Blade: iron
Guard: gilded bronze
Northwestern Iran (?)
Sasanian period,
7th century A.D. ...
The iron sword with a gold-covered wooden scabbard, having P-shaped attachments for suspension from a belt, is a type adopted from Central Asian peoples. The scabbard is stamped with a pattern of overlapping feathers."
"Short sword and scabbard
Blade: iron
Iran
Sasanian period,
6th-7th century A.D." .
