Subject: tarkhan 'hero' heavy cavalry
Culture: Turco-Mongol, Turco-Iranian
Setting: Timurid empire, 1370-1507
Object: armor
* Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery
"Turban helmet (migfer)
Persian, Timurid, late 15th century
The helmets used by the Mongolian successor kingdom of Timur (Tamurlane)
They are distinguished by the use of the angular Kufic script." ...
