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Print Sultan Murad III

The Ottoman Empire, 1589
Agate, gold.
Topkapi Palace Museum, collection of stamps.

Print carved from white agate and pen - of gold. Poster has a round shape, it is decorated with spiral floral pattern. In the field of printing is the inscription handwriting: "Praise be to Allah - the creator of people, we daruyuschemu response to the desires and goals." Next is the date: 998 Hijri. Perhaps it was the personal seal of Murad III (1574-1595).

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Grand helmet

The Ottoman Empire, the middle of the XVI century.
Iron, gold, rubies, turquoise.
Topkapi Palace Museum.
Treasury.

The conical dome decorated with a golden helmet engraved with dense floral ornament. In golden caste in the form of floral rosettes inserted small rubies and turquoise. As crown is notched gold inscription. Above the inscription placed frieze of palmetto, crowned with alternating small rubies and turquoise. Peak, recoil pad and headphones are decorated similarly. On the visor and the back plate placed texts from the Koran. Inside palmette on atop the gold bow arrows nasechen symbol of monotheism. It is known that the Ottoman sultans wore helmets with precious stones on some of the ceremony and upon entry into the city they had conquered.

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Dagger of Yavuz Sultan Selim I (the Terrible)



The Ottoman Empire, 1514
Steel, rock crystal, turquoise.
Topkapi Palace Museum, Treasury.

Obviously, the dagger was made on the occasion of the victory of Sultan Selim I Yavuz, they gained in the battle with the Persians at Chaldyrane in 1514.
The handle of his dagger carved from rock crystal. Its surface is decorated with engraved gilt ornamentation. Pommel Stick figure, it is divided into sections by narrow vertical grooves engraved. Above, on the obverse side is engraved the inscription: "The victory over the Persians." Under it placed an engraved square, divided into small sections. On both sides of the square mirror is the inscription: "The ruler of the kingdom." The upper part of the shallow tops inlaid with turquoise, at its upper edge secured ruby. In the center of the blade dagger made slotted figured dollars. Both blades are decorated with delicate vines in the technique notches gold.