some time ago I did many sketches of the Sassanid horse warriors based on my friend Patryk Skupniewicz research into their arms and armour, and, I should add, my own observations of various Sassanian monuments and of other researchers' work. Here one of them, of a royal warrior
Lately I did some drawings related to the horse bridles, esepcially the early curb-bits,psalion snaffle bits, cavessons and muzzle-cavesson 'mixes' from the Sassanian Period - III through VII century A.D.
First a sketch of a horse armour with a 'horned saddle' that came to Europe from Central Asia some time during late II century B.C. and stayed in use until the later Antiquity.
Various cavessons and muzzles of bronze
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a curb-bit and horse mask or chamfron
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The drawing of the standing knight (nobleman, I'm guessing) is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteHow do you suppose the arms articulated in the banded armour? I can't quite figure it out, and right now I am thinking that they were made of separate rerebraces+spaulders and vambraces+elbow cops, carefully arranged as to not leave any gaps. What are your thoughts?