Cleveland Museum of Art
Dagger (Khanjali)
- Date
- 1700s–1800s
- Medium
- carnelian?, steel, wood handle, copper alloy, and silver gilt
- Culture
- Transcaucasian, Georgian
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
A khanjali is a dagger popular with the inhabitants of Georgia and the rest of the Caucasus since ancient times. They often have a single offset groove on each face of the blade and the shape is similar to the ancient Roman gladius and the Scottish dirk.
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