TWO-HEADED EAGLE IN THE ISLAMIC AND TURKIC -TATAR MEDIEVAL ART
In article on the basis of studying of archeological finds and architectural monuments the horde is narrated about time of emergence and an area of a distribution of an image two-headed eagle. This image was tracked for the first time in hettsky monumental and decorative art in the XIII century BC, and then in Egypt, Sumer, Assyria, etc. The two-headed eagle gained distribution as well in Christian Europe in the XII-XIII centuries where after crusades he was accepted as a symbol of the Sacred Roman Empire. In Muslim art the image of a two-headed eagle is noted for the first time in the Kordovsky caliphate (Andalusia) in the XI-XII centuries. Gained distribution the Seldzhuksky state, on coins of khans of the Golden Horde in XIV century, and also in the Crimean khanate.