03-25-2008, 11:27 AM
Quote:Vortigern Studies:se4lavbg Wrote:I'm afraid that's not known. The sources, as quoted in Rance's article, often rely only on 'ancient' description, without real eyewitness reports. We just can't tell.Hello
I still have doubts because in Osprey's Sassanian Elite cavalryman there is (in a two fold plate) a representation of a Sassanid armoured elephant. Does anyone know of period representations (or description) of sassanid armoured elephant like this one?
Best regards
JP Vieira
If you can get a hold of Montvert Publishing's title on the armies of Bactria, there is a line drawing of a small artifact from around Taxila, IIRC, that shows a war elephant with a tower on its back that has some sort of covering of large rectangular plates on it. I can't remember the exact date or details because I don't have my copy with me, but it sounds like the closest thing to what you are looking for.
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
