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Kaskara sword from the V.F. Mashkov collection in the Research Institute and Museum of An-thropology (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Krol A.A.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Krol Alexei A., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5601-2890, e-mail: alexykrol@gmail.com

Abstract

The article is devoted to a study of the sword of the kaskara type from Sudan which is kept in the ethnographical collection of the Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. This sword has been brought from Abissinia by the Russian officer, traveler and diplo-mat V.F. Mashkov in 1892. The author thoroughly describe the museum object; translate the Arabic in-scriptions on the both sides of the blade (two ayats sura al-Fath («the Victory», and ayat from sura al-Imran («The Family of Imran»); identify marks (German bladesmith P. Munich from Solingen) and arms company W. Clauberg Solingen. The author suggest a date when the kaskara has been hammered and re-construct a provenance of the sword.

Keywords

ethnography, Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, kaskara sword, Sudan, V.F. Mashkov, blade marks

Цит.: Krol A.A. Kaskara sword from the V.F. Mashkov collection in the Research Institute and Museum of An-thropology (Lomonosov Moscow State University) // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2015; 4/2015; с. 107-115