Subject: yeniceri yamakdahi leader of Janissary auxiliaries
Culture: Ottoman Turkish
Setting: Ottoman empire, Balkans/Anatolia 18thc
Object: yatağan yataghan sword
"Swords (yataghan) Turkish, 19th century The ivory or silver eared hilt with no guard and a recurved blade all typify the yataghan.
These examples are decorated in the late Ottoman style and use precious and semi-precious materials in their construction,
which combined with gold inlaid poems or Koranic verses all make the yataghan an interesting adn attractive weapon.
