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Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense)

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A bronze object from the late bronze age, Turkey, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Like armored warriors, horses were usually protected by defenses of steel plate, leather, or reinforced textile. Fluted and engraved shaffrons like this were used throughout the Middle East, notably in Iran, Ottoman Turkey, and the Mamluk Empire in Egypt and Syria.

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1400 - 1499
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Shaffron

Horse's Head Defense.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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