02-16-2009, 07:29 PM
Hello
I'm working on a new artwork with Persian elite infantry and cavalry, while looking at my photo collection I came to similar conclusions. My infantryman had a tube-and-yoke cuirass with the place for the Sagaris and short row of Pteruges. It has also a short neck and throat guard known from the Parthian period which seems to have been also used by the Achaemenids.
My cavalryman has that high neck-guard which also acts as throat-guard and a two row Pteruges. Other new ideas are those rectangular upper arm armour and an additional ring armour for the left arm (it was the left arm which was equipped with ring armour according to Xenophon IIRC).
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I'm working on a new artwork with Persian elite infantry and cavalry, while looking at my photo collection I came to similar conclusions. My infantryman had a tube-and-yoke cuirass with the place for the Sagaris and short row of Pteruges. It has also a short neck and throat guard known from the Parthian period which seems to have been also used by the Achaemenids.
My cavalryman has that high neck-guard which also acts as throat-guard and a two row Pteruges. Other new ideas are those rectangular upper arm armour and an additional ring armour for the left arm (it was the left arm which was equipped with ring armour according to Xenophon IIRC).
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Bahram Ardavan-Dorood
