ABSTRACT
Asafi, f. I8r., gives what is probably the earliest surviving view of Tiflis, showing the capture by the Turks in the early autumn of 1578. In the right-hand bottom corner is the field commander, Ozdemiroghlu Osman Pasha, with his mounted staff in armour. Janissary musketeers are attacking the old citadel of Tabor to the south of the Kura. A bridge leads over the river to the north bank where major buildings are already in flames. Here the Turks are attacking from the right flank. The Georgians, identifiable in their hashliks, continue the defence. For similar hashlik see Castelli's drawing of Giorgi Saakadze, reproduced in Allen, HGP, opposite p. 166; for exactly comparable uniform of a Turkish musketeer of the early seventeenth century, see below, pI. 15, opp. p. 519.
