Subject: cavalry
Culture: Ak Koyunlu / White Sheep Turkmen
Setting: Iran 15thc
Object: separ shield
Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor *
"Shield Engraved steel Iranian, 15th century"
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
engraved with large cartouches enclosing floral arabesques,
may have originated in fifteenth-century Iran. ..."
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Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Shield (separ) Probably Turkish, ak-Koyonlu, late 15th century
The calligraphy records the titles of an unnamed ak-Koyonlu sultan, probably Ya'qub (1478-90).
The boss of the shield is earlier, for its inscription is dedicated to the Timurid ruler Ulugh Beg (r. 1447-9)." ...
