Persian heavy cavalry

[MeinPanzer]

Thanks sitalkes Sean and etruschi for the material.

An armoured coat is interesting but how would it look like? Persians used such coats yes but I can only imagine the ones with an inner mail layer known from Parthian and Sasanian periods.
Achaemenids used scale armour (Saka/Scythians, too), it should be not elastic enough to make an Kandys out of scale armour if you ask me.

It might be just an unarmoured cavalryman with a Kandys, Persian clothing style had often geometric patterns, in this case maybe squares.

The coat is known from several other sources as well. If you want to get a general idea of what it looked like, you can just search for coins of the Indo-Saka kings Azes and Spalirises.

http://www.coinarchives.com/a/results.p ... earch=azes

This is a particularly clear example:

http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer ... 0&Lot=1618

Also imo the armoured saddle was a technology developed in Asia Minor and mostly employed by the forces originating from the west. Traditional Persian gear should have been armoured chaps. Also too much of the leg is exposed for an armoured saddle and those ring armour look-alikes are most likely typical Iranic wide cavalry trousers, displayed like that in Iranic art.

The covering of the leg is almost certainly hoop-armour, like the cheir of Xenophon but for the legs. An actual example of this kind of armour has been found in a 2nd c. BC Bactrian context from Ai Khanoum.