03-22-2012, 06:33 AM
I agree with Dan that too often sleeve folds get identified as banded armour, but there can be little doubt that cataphracts wearing iron banded armour fired bows in combat. There is a depiction of a Saka cataphract wearing segmented arm armour and firing a bow, while an almost contemporary iron panoply found at Chirik Rabat included banded armour. The key was that the bands were semi-circular and clearly sewn onto some kind of backing, and so they would not have been too restrictive.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
