11-18-2007, 09:23 PM
@gie
Nice drawings!
The artist clearly got some of his inspiration in archaeological funds which were made in the Sogdiana/Central Asia by the Soviet Union.
The findings were not clearly dated but it seems to have been a Parthian-Scythian engagement in the 2th century BC. The neck guard of #1 in the first picture is the typical Scytho-Iranic one, used already by the troops of the Achaemenids and earlier. The armour and equipment of the troops of the early Parthian empire should have been still very similar to that of the Achaemenids.
The helmet of that heavy armoured Cataphracts is the "Persian" marathon helmet which should have been of Mesopotamian auxiliary’s.
Nice drawings!
The artist clearly got some of his inspiration in archaeological funds which were made in the Sogdiana/Central Asia by the Soviet Union.
The findings were not clearly dated but it seems to have been a Parthian-Scythian engagement in the 2th century BC. The neck guard of #1 in the first picture is the typical Scytho-Iranic one, used already by the troops of the Achaemenids and earlier. The armour and equipment of the troops of the early Parthian empire should have been still very similar to that of the Achaemenids.
The helmet of that heavy armoured Cataphracts is the "Persian" marathon helmet which should have been of Mesopotamian auxiliary’s.
Bahram Ardavan-Dorood
