03-19-2012, 08:09 PM
Hailog, Daryush
A good question, but I don't know if I can answer it properly. I have Simonenko's book but not his articles. He was perhaps the "first" authority and he correctly linked the Arosi and Alans to a new wave of post-Sauromatian culture.
We know that late-on Sarmatians/Alans wore chainmail, and I don't see why they would not have used combinations of various armor types-- scale, lamellar, and plate-- within a single set of armor that might have also included mail. I have always wanted to create an armored tunic of both scale and plate. In Europe, lamellar seems to arrive later; but maybe I'm wrong because maybe it has been found in Duro Europa and elsewhere.
Right now, I'm awaiting a new Roxolani spangenhelm just like the ones pictured on Trajan's Column. Hopefully, Greg Kulig will have it finished by our Legio III gathering on May 1st in Kennebunk, ME.
Armor was and is expensive, and I doubt anyone just tossed out dated armor for something new. It got passed to a new wearer or was incorporated within something new. No apologies needed. I welcome other thoughts on this subject. And yes, this is an old thread, but then again I not very new
I'm like old armor.
A good question, but I don't know if I can answer it properly. I have Simonenko's book but not his articles. He was perhaps the "first" authority and he correctly linked the Arosi and Alans to a new wave of post-Sauromatian culture.
We know that late-on Sarmatians/Alans wore chainmail, and I don't see why they would not have used combinations of various armor types-- scale, lamellar, and plate-- within a single set of armor that might have also included mail. I have always wanted to create an armored tunic of both scale and plate. In Europe, lamellar seems to arrive later; but maybe I'm wrong because maybe it has been found in Duro Europa and elsewhere.
Right now, I'm awaiting a new Roxolani spangenhelm just like the ones pictured on Trajan's Column. Hopefully, Greg Kulig will have it finished by our Legio III gathering on May 1st in Kennebunk, ME.
Armor was and is expensive, and I doubt anyone just tossed out dated armor for something new. It got passed to a new wearer or was incorporated within something new. No apologies needed. I welcome other thoughts on this subject. And yes, this is an old thread, but then again I not very new
I'm like old armor.
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
