11-24-2014, 07:55 PM
This thread has gone off on an interesting tangent. I’d love to weigh in, but all my book are in storage, and there’s no way I’d make any assertions on this list without serious backup.
That said, most depictions of Parthian and Sassanian armored horsemen are probably well known to folks on this list. Perhaps not so well known are late Sassanian bullae. The following link shows one of the better examples I've found online:
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Sa...llery1.jpg
Like coins, you can only safely draw so much information from bullae. But the above example might, for instance, seem to indicate an armored horse, ridden by a helmeted (scale aventail?) horseman with a scale armored torso and perhaps laminated metal arm guards. Plus, of course, your standard late Sassanian accoutrements...
Gregg
That said, most depictions of Parthian and Sassanian armored horsemen are probably well known to folks on this list. Perhaps not so well known are late Sassanian bullae. The following link shows one of the better examples I've found online:
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Sa...llery1.jpg
Like coins, you can only safely draw so much information from bullae. But the above example might, for instance, seem to indicate an armored horse, ridden by a helmeted (scale aventail?) horseman with a scale armored torso and perhaps laminated metal arm guards. Plus, of course, your standard late Sassanian accoutrements...
Gregg
