TurkeyYataghan sword from Turkey, Europe. Part of the Pitt Rivers Museum Founding Collection. Given to the Museum in 1884.

The Ottoman Empire, with its emphasis on cavalry, produced many fine swords, such as the yataghan sabre. This example could be up to 400 years old. It has a curved and grooved steel blade, a double-lobed horn grip and leaf decoration in repoussé silver or copper on the blade and grip. The yataghan served as the model for a double curved bayonet popular in Western Europe in the mid- 19th century.