Subject: savar knight
Culture: Sassanid Persian
Setting: Byzantine, Arab wars, 532-651
Object: akinakes sword
Metropolitan Museum of Art *
"Sword and scabbard Blade: iron Scabbard and hilt: gold over wood, set with garnets and glass paste
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 Scabbard and hilt: silver Iran Sasanian period, 6th-7th century A.D."
* Marto
