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LOT 1393
Cuman-Qipchak Iron Shield Rim Group
12TH-13TH CENTURY A.D.
2 6/7 - 17 in. (252 grams total, 7.2-43 cm).
Square in section and curved in profile with pierced lobes and attachment rivets. [10, No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
LiteratureCf. in Dmitriev, A.V., Narozhniy E.I., 'Two Burials of Nomadic Warriors of the 13th-14th Centuries from the North-Eastern Black Sea Region (to the history of the formation of the complex of weapons of the Golden Horde' in Bocharova S.G. and Sitdikova A.G. The Genoese Gazaria and the Golden Horde, Vol.2 (in Russian),Kazan — Kishinev, 2019, fig.12, for identical shield
FootnotesThese kind of shields are often found in the burials of nomadic warriors of Eastern Europe accompanied by certain sets of weapons — four-part helmets, quiver kits, sabers and a spearhead. Such graves contained the remains of similar wooden shields with metal parts. Determining the dating of these burial complexes in the framework of the Golden Horde time, the Archaeologists dwell in detail on the attribution of the helmets and the remnants of the shields, linking their appearance in the Northeast Black Sea Coast with the resettlement here of the black hoods from Southern Russia in 1260s.
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