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Helmets from the Tarim Basin



fig. 60. Tumšuq. Sassanidischer Spangenhelm mit Flügeln. 6.-7. Jhdt. (?).
(Vergl. den flügellosen modernen tibet. Helm, fig. 76). Kleiner Ansatz zum Nasal.
Museum f. Völkerkunde.
fig. 60. Tumshuk. Sassanid Spangenhelm with wings. 6th-7th Century. (?). (Compare the wingless modern Tibetan helmet, fig. 76). Small hint of a nasal. Museum of Ethnology.

fig. 61. Tumšuq. Sassanid. Spangenhelm (die Flügel sind abgebrochen) mit Kegel. 6.-7. Jhdt. (?).
Kleiner Ansatz zum Nasal.
Museum f. Völkerkunde.
fig. 61 Tumshuk. Sassanid. Spangenhelm (the wings are broken off) with [pine]cone. 6th-7th century. (?).
Small hint of a nasal.
Museum of Ethnology.



fig. 62. Qyzil. Ritter, 8. Jhdt. (?).
Abgewandelter Wehrkragenpanzer. Die Rosetten auf der Brust tragen als Apotropaeum Löwenkopf oder Gorgoneion. Jüngere Form des Spangenhelms m. Kegel; die Flügel sind abgebrochen. Nach S. v. Oldenburg. Russkaja Turkestanskaja Ekspedicija.
fig. 62 Kizil. Rider, 8th century. (?).
Modified armoured defense collar. The rosettes on the chest worn as apotropaic (intended to ward off evil) lions head or Gorgon. More recent shape of the Spangenhelm with [pine]cone; the wings are broken off. After S. v. Oldenburg. Russkaia Turkestanskaia Ekspeditsiia.

A coloured photo of a collection of Stucco Figures from Kizil in the Tarim Basin. Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

fig. 63. Miniatur auf Papier, aus Chotscho, 8.-9. Jhdt.
Gelber spitzkegelförmiger Helm. Blaue am Helmrand befestigte, nur d. Augen freilassende Helmbrünne aus Plättchenpanzer (?); kurzärmeliger Panzer aus gelbroten am unteren Ende gelben, rechteckigen, senkrecht stehenden Plättchen zwischen horizontalen Rohleder (?)-Streifen. Am Gurte 1. und hinten Bogen im blauen Bogenköcher. Schwarze Lanze mit (nicht mitabgebildeter) roter, mit d. Zipfeln angeknüpfter Fahne.         Museum f. Völkerkunde.
fig. 63 Miniature on paper, from Xoqo, 8th-9th Century.
Yellow pointed-cone-shaped helmet. Blue composite helmet, only the eyes visible through an aventail of armoured (?) platelets; short-sleeved armour of yellowish-red, at the bottom of yellow, rectangular, vertical plates between horizontal hardened (boiled) leather (?) strips. On a belt to left and rear a bow in a blue bowcase. Black lance with (not depicted) a red flag with tethered corners.
Museum of Ethnology.

A coloured photo of this Uighur Face Defence, Chotscho, Tarim Basin. Miniature on paper, 8th-9th Century.
Source: p57, Bilderatlas zur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Mittel-Asiens : vol.1 by Albert von Le Coq,

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See also A Sogdian King of the Demons, Piandjikent, with a winged helmet, 8th century
and Khūd Helmets by David Nicolle, an extract from The military technology of classical Islam