TWO PIKE-HEADS FROM THE COLLECTION OF NIZHNY NOVGOROD STATE HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL MUSEUM-RESERVE
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https://doi.org/10.24852/2587-6112.2020.6.387.392Keywords:
Russian state, 16th–17th centuries, warfare, armament, tips of the pikesAbstract
The paper introduces into scientifi c discourse two pike-heads from the collection of Nizhny Novgorod State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Both of them are fi tted on shaft of later historical periods. These items were deposited in the museum collection by the son of a renowned photographer and artist A. O. Karelin (1837–1906); the source of their acquirement by the former owner is unknown. Tips of the pikes are made of iron and feature sockets and a blade with a triangular cross-section of an awl shape and an "apple" on the neck of the blade. The socket of one of the tips has two "veins" (backlines) – metal strips with holes for fi xing nails. For dating of the pike-heads, their design features considered, and close counterparts were found. Their most probable dating and attribution are proposed as Russia, late 16th – fi rst half of 17th centuries, light cavalry pike or the weapons of New order regiments (pikemen, soldiers). The presence of counterparts in Kazakh materials of the 17th –fi rst half of 19th centuries allows the author also to assume later "Oriental" origins of the spearheads.
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