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    warfare.tk & warfare.gq

    My websites warfare.tk, warfare.gq, warfare.ga & warfare.cf are permanently down due to Freenom.com leaving the domain name business: The illustration and other resources are available at: warfare.ueuo.com warfarewest.x10host.com costume.myartsonline.com for Western Europe and Northwest Africa...
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    Question about Balkan arms and armour in early medieval period

    SLAV WARRIOR in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath
    SLAV ARCHER in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath
    10TH CENTURY SLAV CHIEFTAIN in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath
    11TH CENTURY SLAV INFANTRYMEN in Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066 by Ian Heath

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    Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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    Janissaries with huge plumes

    Yes, I agree.

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    An Arab Chamfron in Scylitzes Chronicle?

    Perhaps a poor black and white photo in a book or an even earlier woodcut or someone else's sketch. In the 2017 article he states (para. 30): "A number of medieval Islamic and Middle Eastern Christian illustrated sources show such a chamfron (figures 12), though the early medieval Egyptian example can be disputed (figure 25)". Figure 25 is St. Pteleme (Ptolomeus), Egypt, 9th century-early 10th century, Pierpont Morgan Library MS. M.581. But he does not express any doubts about the Scylitzes image. He gives many separate examples so he is not supplementing from another find.

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    Coptic Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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    An Arab Chamfron in Scylitzes Chronicle?

    A drawing of an Arab cavalry horse with chamfron in Scylitzes Chronicle appeared as fig. 609I in David Nicolle's 1982 PHD thesis: "The military technology of classical Islam" It has appeared in subsequent publications and by other authors. It appears as follows in 'Horse Armour in the Medieval...
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    7th century Scandinavian Guldgubber Warrior

    Thanks
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    7th century Scandinavian Guldgubber Warrior

    Adorno said:
    I have to disagree. It's on both shoes and they are both bending upwards, clearly indicating a high heel.
    It's funny that I just read an article about shoes in a historical magazine (that I subscribe to) that referred to that exact image (guldgubber) showing high heels :smile:
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    That's interesting. Does the article say what proportion of guldgubbers have high heels?

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    Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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    7th century Scandinavian Guldgubber Warrior

    Adorno said:
    So you think it's some sort of residue from the production process of the gold image, and not heels?
    It's not background since there is no background.
    Click to expand...

    There is also something to fill up the space under his left elbow.

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    7th Century Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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    7th century Scandinavian Guldgubber Warrior

    The "heels" may be background or sprues to make sure the metal flowed to all parts.

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    Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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    2 Jericho Plates from Central Asia

    I was surprised to see a plate with the Jericho story from Semireçye in Central Asia found at Verkhne-Nildino was cast from the same mould as the plate with the Jericho story from Semireçye in Central Asia found at Anikovskoe. The gilding is different and there are major differences in the later...
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    What's Ghulam and Ghilman? Tulag Explains

    There are wall paintings of Ghilman from one of the Ghaznavid palaces at Laškari Bazar in central Afghanistan
    A soft headdress at Laškari Bazar
    A Ghaznavid Ghulam in Armies of the Dark Ages by Ian Heath based on the Laškari Bazar wall paintings
    A Ghaznavid Bodyguard by Graham Turner based on the Laškari Bazar wall paintings

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    wall paintings of Ghilman from one of the Ghaznavid palaces at Laškari Bazar in central Afghanistan
    A soft headdress at Laškari Bazar
    Ghaznavid Ghulam in Armies of the Dark Ages by Ian Heath based on the Laškari Bazar wall paintings
    Ghaznavid Bodyguard by Graham Turner based on the Laškari Bazar wall paintings

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    Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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    7th century Scandinavian Guldgubber Warrior

    The 7th century Scandinavian Warrior in 'Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066' by Ian Heath is probably based on a Guldgubber depicting a drinker with a cup without foot (and a spear?). Vendel period. Sorte Muld, Bornholm, Denmark. A Guldgubber (Gullgubber) [little old man of gold] is some kind of...
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    Janissaries with huge plumes

    This is Sultan Suleiman during the Battle of Mohacs, 1526. Süleymanname of 1558, Topkapi Saray Museum ms Hazine 1517.
    The black wings may be on the slung, blue shield with gold pattern of the cavalryman at top-left. His green robe can be seen to the left of the Janissary in red coat firing his musket. But, the wings may belong to that Janissary.

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    Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers
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    Earliest depiction of a Western-European kite shield

    I have previously written that Ian Heath's idea that the kite-shaped shield was depicted in Europe for the first time in the 'Codex Aureus of Echternach', (The Gospel of Otto III). Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany was based on a dating on the reused ivory cover as c. 983-991AD...
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    Historical depictions of Kushans - Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and N.Indian Sub-cont

    The Kushan Empire was formed by the Yuezhi (their Chinese name), in the Bactrian territories in the early 1st century. It spread to encompass much of Afghanistan, and then the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent at least as far as Saketa and Sarnath near Varanasi (Benares), where...
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