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

m 128 n John Masson Smith, Jr. transport the arrows that were not loaded into the combat quivers, and would have been left with the soldiers’ spare ponies to refill the combat quivers when they changed to fresh mounts. This function would explain the counter-intu- itive placement of the arrows points-up in the box quiver in a Baghdad siege scene 1 : to reload, upend the box quiver over the combat quiver. Box quivers are plentifully present in the combat scenes of Rashid 1309, but the riders carrying them are not shown shooting; otherwise box quiver illustrations are rare: there is only one in the 1336 Shahnama . Parthian shooting was the only situation in which successive (“shower”) shots were possible at the gallop, because the fleeing mount needs no steering; the box quiver, holding arrows nocks-up, would be essential for grasping a handful of arrows in these cir- cumstances. of shower shooting, suggested in Arab Archery , 136, for defending against a lion that jumps on the rump of the hunter’s horse, is illustrated, coping with a wolf, in Canby, 101. My (controversial) suggestion that their depiction reflects Ilkhan Ghazan’s (unsuccessful) ef- fort to copy the “shower-shooting” of the Mamluks appears in Smith/Lev, 256–57, 260. The failure of Ghazan’s effort may be reflected in the absence of this quiver from the battle scenes in a Shahnаma of 1336, which shows many combat quivers but only one box quiver: see O. Grabar and S. Blair, Epic Images and Contemporary History: The Illustrations of the Great Mongol Shahnаma (University of Chicago, 1980) [hereinafter “Demotte” Shahnаma ], pl. 31. 1 Legacy , facing page 37, fig. 33 (cat. no. 24); see also 156, fig. 183 for the very implau- sible placement of arrows points-up in a combat quiver. Tibetan box quivers also held arrows points-up: LaRocca, 187 and 188–89, nos. 91 and 92. Arab Archery , 154, describes quiv- ers that hold arrows points-down. In Saracen Archery, 48, the editors remark that Taybugh makes no mention of the method described in Arab Archery , 40 for extracting arrows point- first, “presumably because it had no place in combat”. Fig. 2. A depiction of the Mongol box-quiver in Rashid al-Din’s World History (1314 AD) (fragment of a miniature from Ms. A27, Fol. 25R). Note 4 arrows stuck out from a not visible open-type quiver of the right cavalryman. 1314 AD (Or. Ms. 20, Fol. 19R)