Ottoman style flanged mace Maces were blunt force weapons used for crushing blows against the enemy. These weapons were effective against armored troops, and typically were smooth or had 3-12 flanges or blades protruding from the top of the weapon.

The mace was both a weapon and a symbol of power in Ottoman society. A mace, in its simplest form, is a heavy ball-shaped object (called a topuz) on a stick that is designed to inflict blunt-force trauma. The Ottomans used them since their founding, each with various levels of orimentation. It was particularly effective against armored opponents.

2022年1月11日 · The Ottoman cannon was the biggest weapon in the Ottoman Empire at the time. The Ottoman flanged mace, Turkish bow, Kilij, and Yatagan were handmade in Turkey. The bigger and more powerful weapons like the Ottoman bombards, Mauser Parabellum, Ottoman Cannon, and Dardanelles Gun were often imported.

The present paper, after briefly introducing the historical development of maces, will examine the maces used in ceremonies, wars and sportive activities as based on historical visual material in Ottoman Turkey, Iran, India and Japan. It will also give information about mace-lifting of sultans as an athletic accomplishment and about mace-makers.

An Ottoman flanged mace, with a gilded head and silver-gilt fittings, dated to the second half of the seventeeth century, formerly in the collection of Markgraf Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden (1655-1707) at Schloss Rastatt, is in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe (inv. no.D242; Ernst Petrasch, Reinhard Sänger, Eva Zimmermann and Hans Georg ...

2017年8月6日 · Ottoman Mace Maces are a type of weapon used by many in history, with each having their own designs, usually blunt or and relatively short Maces where designed to be used with brute force to damage armoured opponents as bladed weapons struggled to penetrate foot soldiers armour Ottomen maces where blunt with no/little sharp edges as they could ...

The previously discussed maces from the National Museum also belong to the Ottoman period. Specifically, 1-40/127 and 3-38/328 are produced locally and imitate the Ottoman maces whereas 3-38/4 is an Ottoman mace of the 16th-17th centuries. Specimen 721 (SMHE) is an eight-flanged mace with rounded flanges and an open head.

a silver mounted ottoman ceremonial mace, period of mustafa iii (1757-1774) The shaft extending into a oinon-shaped head with ribbed dome finial, both ends encased in silver mounts, with incised floral decoratio on the shaft and repousse floral decoration to the head, the central section encased in black leather, tugra marks to upper and lower ...

This delicately crafted mace, with its head of silver-gilt pierced with tulip designs, was not a battle weapon; it was probably an insignia of command in the Ottoman army. Similar examples were taken as booty after the unsuccessful Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683.

2018年8月11日 · Turkish Mace (Bozdoğan, Gürz), made of silver, copper alloy (niello), leather and wood, dated 1648–87. This delicately crafted silver-gilt mace, with tulip designs, was an insignia of command in the Turkish army.