Alanic Sarmatian influence in the 5th century

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The hybrid armour is generally described as large plates on the abdomen, and small plates or maille on the chest (reconstruction and find of such with scale in Simonenko). An alternative combination with scale on the chest, and maille elsewhere is also known (also in Sarmatian finds). This is really a Central Asian, not a Chinese, style of armour, and appears in Gandhara, Sogdiana, and Iran, but doesn't appear east of the Tien Shan in any significant capacity until the Hephthalite period.