Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Follow Arthur Bijl, Hutton McRoberts Assistant Curator of Ottoman, Middle Eastern and Asian Arms and Armour, as he considers the cultural role of daggers played in the Ottoman Empire through the poetic inscriptions on one enigmatic dagger from the sixteenth century.

For more information about daggers at the Wallace Collection, join us for January's Meet the Expert talk, where Arthur will be discussing a unique dagger made in medieval Herat: youtu.be/OCgyNJYKeSY