TURANIC ARMS AND ARMOUR (part II)

Full armor of rider and horse of an Ottoman qapikulu (heavy cavalryman of the “court slaves”, similar to the Mamluks). He also has a metal kalkan shield (Museo Stibbert Florence).

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CONTINUED FROM PART I

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A shishak helmet, widespread almost all over the Turanic world (Metropolitan Museum of Art).

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Ottoman soldiers with shishak helmets and mail and plate armour (Topkapi Palace Museum).

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Tatar military equipment: scale armor, composite nomadic bow and quiver, curved saber (Museum of Kulikovo Battlefield, representation by M. Gorelik).

Mail and plate armour of rider and horse. Mamluk of the Ottoman army, mid-16th century (unknown museum)

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Turkoman-Iranian lamellar armor of rider and horse (Metropolitan Museum of Art.)

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A shield from the Delhi Sultanate. 15th century (copyright: Furusiyya Art Foundation).

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Turkoman mail and plate armour from Iran ((copyright: Furusiyya Art Foundation).

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Armour of an Aq-Qoyunlu Turkoman warrior (Copyright: Royal Academy of Arts, London).

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Turanic bowcase and quiver of the 17th century (copyright: Furusiyya Art Foundation).

Turko-Iranian shield of Sipar type, 15th century (unknown museum).

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Mamluk shishak helmet and mail and plate armour (unknown museum)

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Periklis Deligiannis

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