The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 7 (1973)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 7

"About the Sword of the Huns and the 'Urepos' of the Steppes"

Nickel, Helmut
1973
12 pages
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Helmut Nickel

Sword and scabbard, Blade: iron; scabbard and hilt: gold over wood, garnets, glass-paste; guard: gilt-bronze, Sasanian
Sasanian
ca. 7th century CE
Piece from a Luxury Dagger, Gold, Langobardic
Langobardic
ca. 600
Sword with Scabbard Mounts, Iron, bronze, gold, silver, wood, Chinese
Chinese
ca. 600
Blade and Mounting for a Slung Sword (Tachi), Norimitsu  Japanese, Steel, wood, lacquer, rayskin (samé), silver, leather, cloisonné, gold, copper, mother-of-pearl, Japanese
Multiple artists/makers
blade, late 14th–early 15th century; mounting, 19th century
Sheet-gold decoration for a sword scabbard, Gold, Greek or Scythian
Greek or Scythian
ca. 340–320 BCE
Relief: two servants bearing food and drink, Limestone, Achaemenid
Achaemenid
ca. 358–338 BCE
Plate with king hunting rams, Silver, mercury gilding, niello inlay, Sasanian
Sasanian
ca. mid-5th–mid-6th century CE