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

Mongol Warfare and the Creation of the Mongol Empire m 127 n the combat quiver, with the top forward by the rider’s hip; they fully encase the arrows, except for a slot in the top exposing the ends of the arrows. In the Legacy depiction of dismounted archers at the siege of Baghdad 2 , the arrows are placed in the quiver points up — which would call for careful extraction: “with the index finger and the middle finger” 3 . Carried with the nock-ends up, the arrows could be grasped by the handful for shower-shooting as described in Arab Archery and illustrated in Canby 4 . They probably served ordinarily to 1 In order to assist with the visualization of the author’s argument the Editors provided this article with some illustration. Figs. 1–3 and 8–10 were provided byAlexander Matveev, most- ly taken from his article “Works of art as a source for the history of warfare: on the example of Persian miniatures” // Manuscripta Orientalia. 1998/Vol.4, No.3; figs. 4–7 were prepared by John Smith for his paper “Archaeology and Mounted Archery” at the 1998 International conference on Military Archaeology in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2–5 September 1998. — Eds . A slightly later line drawing was selected here as it most clearly represents the quivers depicted in themanuscript of “WorldHistory” by Rashid al-Din and other 14 th centuryMongol periodminiatures. 2 Legacy , facing page 37, fig. 33 (cat. no. 24); Rashid 1309, 114–15, pl. 38; 146–47, pl, 54; 150–51, pl. 56 — also in color following p. 38. 3 Arab Archery , 40. 4 Shower-shooting is described in Arab Archery , 136, 150–52 and Saracen Archery , 138, 142; these must be consulted together for full appreciation. A practical application Fig. 1. An outline of a brush drawing of a standard open-type (“combat”) quiver 1 (From the 15 th century Tebriz, Diez Album, fol. 72)