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Harbeci

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Costumes Orientaux
Recueil de costumes et vêtements de l'Empire ottoman au 18e siècle
Collection of costumes and clothing of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century
Owned by Joseph Gabriel Monnier

Capelan posteli irénisseri : Janissaire chargé de mettre et d'ôter les peaux de tigres des chevaux du sultan
Janissary in charge of putting on and taking off the tiger skins of the sultan's horses

The Sixty Harbecis were another special janissary contingent, also assigned to executions. On campaign, forty of them guarded the tent of the Grand Vezir, and twenty guarded that of the Janissary Ağa. They took their name from the long halberd (harbe) that they carried; their tiger skin mantles made them a favorite of artists.
Source: État militaire ottoman depuis la fondation de l'Empire jusqu'a nos jours (1882) by A. Djevad Bey