Single-Edged Knife (Scramasax)
600s
Maker Unknown
Medieval Art
Single-Edged Knife (Scramasax), 600s. Frankish, Champagne(?), Migration period, 7th century. Iron, copper, and gold foil; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1919.1014 Known as a scramasax, seax means knife in Old English.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Arms and Armor
- Formatted Medium
- iron, copper, and gold foil
- Inscribed
- Inscription: guard decorated with two bands of gold filigree between which is a thin band of plain gold with an embossed inscription.
- Departments
- Medieval Art
- Accession Number
- 1919.1014
- Credit Line
- Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 106A Migration Period & Coptic
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