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Daggers of this type were considered an indispensable accouterment of male costume in the states of Persian Gulf and Arabia; typically, these daggers had a hilt of horn, bone, or ivory as the core, a double-edged blade with a central rib, and their hilts and scabbards were embellished with floral, geometric and other decorative patterns in precious metals; this dagger displays finely worked sheets of silver, woven silver filigree bands, and geometric designs of silver threads sewn into leather; to wear this dagger, a silver belt would have been passed through its side rings, displaying the object at the waist line, not unlike the way Jahangir, the Mughal emperor (1982:34-3) wears his ceremonial dagger.
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