Formed with a broadly triangular blade, narrow neck and tapering round-section socket.

PROVENANCE:
Ex old English collection.
The Kusmirek Collection, UK.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Nicolle, D., The military technology of the Classical Islam, Edinburgh, 1982, volume I, fig.120.

FOOTNOTES:
The basic Arabic term for a spear or lance, whether used by cavalry or infantry, was rumh. In the 7th century it normally would have been ten or twelve cubits long, i.e. four and a half metres.