Subject: cavalry

Culture: Ak Koyunlu / White Sheep Turkmen

Setting: Iran 15thc

Object: armor

Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor *

"Pair of Leg Guards Steel, damascened with silver and partly gilt

Iranian, Ak-Koyunlu period, late 15th century

This is the only recorded matching pair of mail-and-plate greaves (guards for the lower leg)

of this fifteenth-century type. Similar floral ornament and Arabic inscriptions

are found on the turban helmets exhibited in this vitrine."

* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor

"Mail Shirt Steel Syria, Mamluk period, or Iran, Ak-Koyunlu period, 15th century

This is a typical cavalry shirt of the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

Its heavy links provided considerable protection against saber slashes.

Many of the rings are stamped with concentric circles,

a feature found on mail shirts with both Mamluk and Iranian associations." ...