{"data": {"id": 99442, "accession_number": "1919.1015", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Single-Edged Knife (Scramasax), 600s. Frankish, Burgundy (?), Migration period, 7th century. Iron, copper, and gold foil; overall: 36.9 x 4.1 cm (14 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1919.1015", "current_location": "106A Migration Period & Coptic", "title": "Single-Edged Knife (Scramasax)", "creation_date": "600s", "creation_date_earliest": 600, "creation_date_latest": 699, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Frankish, Burgundy (?), Migration period, 7th century"], "technique": "iron, copper, and gold foil", "support_materials": [], "department": "Medieval Art", "collection": "MED - Migration Period", "type": "Arms and Armor", "measurements": "Overall: 36.9 x 4.1 cm (14 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.369, "height_inch": 14, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.041, "width_inch": 1, "width_inch_fraction": 0.625}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Paul Mallon, Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art).", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1919", "sortorder": null}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1919-", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": ["1915.332", "476.1919"], "did_you_know": "Scramasax come in a variety of sizes and are all-purpose tools and weapons often carried by both men and women.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The scramasax, a single-edged knife, was a general purpose implement. It could serve equally well as a tool or as a weapon and generally did not exceed 12 inches in length. As with most objects of the Migration period, iron weapons survive as excavated grave goods and tend to be heavily corroded. The grips, now missing, were probably fashioned from wood or bone and silver inlay decorated the pommels (the knob on the hilt, or handle). The ornamental gold foil bands, perhaps from the original scabbards (the cases in which the blades of swords or daggers are kept) have survived relatively intact.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60780027"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1919.1015-single-edged-knife-s"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.", "page_number": "p. 37", "url": null}, {"citation": "Effros, Bonnie, \"Art of the 'Dark Ages:' Showing Merovingian artifacts in North American public and private collections.\" <em>Journal of the History of Collections</em> vol. 17 no. I (2005).", "page_number": "85-113, fig. 17", "url": null}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.", "page_number": "p. 47", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.1015", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.1015/1919.1015_web.jpg", "width": "387", "height": "893", "filesize": "221984", "filename": "1919.1015_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.1015/1919.1015_print.jpg", "width": "1474", "height": "3400", "filesize": "3335781", "filename": "1919.1015_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.1015/1919.1015_full.tif", "width": "2704", "height": "6237", "filesize": "50624340", "filename": "1919.1015_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 99442, "creators": [], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1915-09-18T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 600, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "600s", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 05:22:15.387000"}}