«Тахиййат»: Сборник статей в честь Н. Н. Дьякова

Leather Armour in the Islamic World: a Classic Problem m 91 n Fig. 3. The interior of the same fragment of a leather or rawhide lamellar cuirass from the Euphrates valley of eastern Syria, probably 13 th or 14 th century ( Qatar Museums of Authority, Doha; author's photograph ) Fig. 4. Fours lames from a splinted hardened leather or rawhide cuirass from the Eu- phrates valley of eastern Syria, probably 13 th or 14 th century. The upper lame is probably to protect the back of the wearer's neck and the middle two probably for the shoulders ( Qatar Museums of Authority, Doha; author's photograph )