10-23-2007, 06:54 PM
@Comerus Gallus Romus
Thanks for the picture, it might be aimed to display a Kasakh but the roots of this kind of armoured cavalryman are of north-east Iranic/Scythian origin, most likely Chorasmia of the 11th century A.D. or later. They and Turkic/Khasakh people were direct neighbours.
However this kind of chain mail armour was only used from the Sasanian period on. The same mask was also used in a Sassanian cavalryman illustration IIRC and from there even in Rome Total War BI .
The Achaemenid heavy cavalry armour was almost certainly a heavy linothorax type with scales.
Thanks for the picture, it might be aimed to display a Kasakh but the roots of this kind of armoured cavalryman are of north-east Iranic/Scythian origin, most likely Chorasmia of the 11th century A.D. or later. They and Turkic/Khasakh people were direct neighbours.
However this kind of chain mail armour was only used from the Sasanian period on. The same mask was also used in a Sassanian cavalryman illustration IIRC and from there even in Rome Total War BI .
The Achaemenid heavy cavalry armour was almost certainly a heavy linothorax type with scales.
Bahram Ardavan-Dorood