Late Sarmatian or early Alan costume

[Robert Vermaat]

This man may be an Alan. These mosaics are almost always described as depicting Vandals, but the horse has an Alan tamga sgn on it, which speaks sooner for an Alan rider than a Vandal. We know that a large Alan group attached themselves to the Vandals in Spain before crossing into Africa with them. I find it more reasonable to assume that we see one of them here than to assume that the Vandals in those few years somehow assimilated part of the Alan culture and afterwards adorned their horses with tamga symbols too.

Another one:
http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320Hist&C ... vandal.jpg