The smaller or _gineta_ sword[121] is handsomer and more important than the large _estoque_. The crossbars, as we find so often in weapons of this character and date, are bent abruptly down, and then curve up in a design of dragons' heads--the well-known emblem of the Nasrite sultans of Granada. Part of the handle is of solid gold adorned with crimson, white, and blue enamel distributed about the top and bottom of the hilt, the pommel, and the _arriaces_ or crossbars. The centre of the hilt consists of ivory, richly carved. On either side of it are two octagonal intersecting figures, bearing upon one side, in semi-Cufic characters, the words, "_Achieve thy aim_," and on the other, "_in preserving his_ (_i.e._ the owner's) _life_." Round the upper border of the ivory is carved the sentence; "_In the name of God; the power belongs to Him, and there is no Divinity but He. Happiness proceeds from God alone_"; and round the lower border, "_The marvellous belongs to God. Assuredly at the outset the ignorant do not know their God; seeing that error is their custom._" [121] The Count of Valencia de Don Juan states that seven Hispano-Moresque _gineta_ swords are known to exist to-day: the one vwhich is here described, and those belonging to the Marquises of Viana and Pallavicino, Baron de Sangarrén, the Duke of Dino, Señor Sánchez Toscano, the archæological museum at Madrid, the museum of Cassel in Germany, and the national library at Paris, A _gineta_ sword in the Madrid Armoury popularly attributed to Boabdil can never have belonged to him. The hilt is modern, and the blade proceeds from Barbary. Other inscriptions of a sacred character, combined with delicate _ataujía_-work, are on the pommel and the upper portion of the hilt; but it has been remarked that, although the entire decoration is amazingly elaborate and rich, these inscriptions nowhere indicate that the weapon belonged to a personage of royal blood. The sheath of this most sumptuous arm is also lavishly adorned with silver and enamel on a purple leather ground. The blade is of a later date than either sheath or hilt, and bears the letter S, believed to be the mark of Alonso Sahagun the elder, of Toledo. The total length of this weapon is thirty-nine inches; and Gayangos declares that it was worn suspended by a belt between the shoulders.[122]