MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Ottoman_or_Persian_-_Turban_Helmet_with_Eye_Holes_-_Walters_5170.jpg (1560x1800) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Ottoman or Persian - Turban Helmet with Eye Holes - Walters 5170.jpg A warrior would have worn this helmet over a cloth turban He would have been confident of being safeguarded in battle by the writing around the helmet's rim The inscription from the Qur'an is garbled however indicating that its Iranian maker may not have known Arabic Yet the presence of Arabic writing apparently was thought to be enough to invoke the protective power of God's word This helmet once belonged to the St Irene royal arsenal in Istanbul Turkey as it bears the distinctive mark tamga composed of a circle enclosing a loop over three vertical lines the stamp is clearly visible to the left of the nose guard on this helmet It was probably part of the war booty amassed by the Ottoman Dynasty during the many wars between Turkey and Iran Later it was owned by the French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme who traveled throughout the Near East and painted many scenes of Muslim life ca 1450 1500 late Medieval steel with silver inlay cm 38 5 23 4 h x diam accession number 51 70 6002 Armory of Constantinople Jean-Léon Gérome Collection Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1913 place of origin east Turkey Ottoman or northwest Iran Persia Walters Art Museum license Islamic metalwork in the Walters Art Museum Indo-Persian armour in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review 15th-century helmets Turban helmets | ||||
