Turban Helmet

Inscription: Inscribed: "Glory to our lord the sultan...the greatest khaqan (Turkish for sultan or khan) abu al-Mu'azzam and king...(?)..., kings of the West (?) and the Persians; Sultan,..."

Marking: Stamped with the Constantinople arsenal mark.

Charles Maurice Camille de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Dino, Paris (until 1904; sold to MMA).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Bright Side of the Battle: Symbol and Ceremony in Islamic Arms and Armor," January 17 1985–January 11, 1987.

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Kalus, Ludvik. "Les armures des Timourides, des Aqqoyunlus, et des Shirvanshahs" in Timurid art and culture : Iran and Central Asia in the fifteenth century, edited by Lisa Golombek, and Maria Subtelny. Vol. 6. New York: Leiden, 1992. pp. 161–62, fig. 7, ill.

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Roxburgh, David J., ed. Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600–1600. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2008. pp. 208–209, 425, no. 155, ill.

Pyhrr, Stuart W. "Armor for America: The Duc de Dino Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal, (2012), pp. 194–95, fig. 24.

Pyhrr, Stuart W. "Of Arms and Men: Arms and Armor at the Metropolitan, 1912–2012." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Summer 2012), pp. 9–10, fig. 9.

Alexander, David, Stuart W. Pyhrr, and Will Kwiatkowski. Islamic Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015. pp. 72–73, no. 23, ill.