Subject: cavalry
Culture: Ak Koyunlu / White Sheep Turkmen
Setting: Iran 15thc
Object: spear
Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor *
The surface is engraved with interlocking Arabic inscriptions,
Koranic verses, and numbers. One of the inscriptions,
'Help from God and early victory,' suggests
the use of this ensign in a military context."
