Karabela - kind of sabre
Lvov, Armenian workshop, half of the 18th c.
Steel blade, silver crossguard decorated with niello and gilding, black ebony cladding on the handle with niello rivets, carved, covered with gold, combined with mother-of-pearl cut into ornaments
Length 94,5 cm, length of the blade 82,5 cm, length of the handle 12 cm
National Museum in Kielce, Inv. No. B82
The inscription on the blade: SI DEUS NOBISCUM QUIS CONTRA NOS
Photo: Tobiasz Bulynko
3d model: Karolina Polkowska
