Helmet from Kovali

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Helmet from Kovali
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Information
Weapon type: Protective weapon
Designations: Helmet from Kowali
Use: helmet
Working time: about 12th century to early 13th century
Region of origin /
author: 		Rus , Cherniyeh Klobuki
Distribution: Rus
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The helmet from Kovali is a helmet (classification of Russian helmets, according to Anatolij N. Kirpichnikov, as type III) from the area of ​​the Rus .

description

A helmet is made of iron . The helmet bell is driven from one piece . In the forehead area it is round, in the upper area it is faceted with polyhedra , which divides the helmet bell into eight fields. A hump-shaped indentation is formed on the right and left sides of the forehead. An extension has been cut out of the helmet on the front to provide a better field of vision. The helmets are equipped with brass decorations . This helmet shape was used during the time of the Golden Horde and is extremely rare. Such helmets are often worn with a mask covering the face . These masks are removable or foldable attached to the helmet. The masks, although used in the Dnepr region, are designed as a bearded European face. A ring is attached to the worked ear on the left side of the head and to the chin, which probably served to attach a chain guard or a chain collar. One of these helmets was found in the burial mound ( Kurgan ) of Kovali (No. 22), a similar one in the burial mound of Lypovets (No. 21). The helmets are assigned to the Tschornije Klobuki (black hats or hoods) also Cerkas (Turkish), Karakalpak or Qaraqalpaq, a semi-nomadic tribe that lived in the area of ​​the Ros River near today's Kiev .

The helmet of Kovali is now kept in the Ukrainian National Museum in Kiev , that of Lypovets in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg .

literature

  • Janet Martin: Medieval Russia. 980-1584. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-85916-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anatoly N. Kirpicnikov: oružie Drevnerusskoe. Volume 3: Anatolij N. Kirpicnikov: Dospech, kompleks Boevych Sredstv IX-XIII vv (= Archeologija SSSR. E 1, 36). “Nauka”, Moscow 1971, Chap. 2: "Shlemy".
  2. ↑ David Nicolle : Armies of Medieval Russia 750-1250 (= Men-at-arms Series 333). Color plates by Angus McBride. Osprey Publishing, Oxford 1999, ISBN 1-85532-848-8 , p. 47.

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