Sassanian body armour - cuirass

[Alanus]

Thanks for the reply. And a fabric tabard would be easier to obtain as well! And would not limit me twisting at the waist for mounted archery and lancing with a thick kontos.

Check out this plate of the same duel. Ardeshir's top appears to have a brass trim. Although this could just as easily be a separate piece on top of a cloth shirt.

Daryush,

I think that what looks like "brass trim" is actually a tunic's collar. I wear something similar. Dan seems to have hit the armor style on the nose, and we see the folded leg material tucked into an almost knee-high boot. Possibly, the other guy (Adeshir) is wearing 3/4 sleeve chainmail; it Zig-zags and looks different than the huberic on the right.

Hard armor would have been difficult to use in the older style of using a contus (often twisting the torso), as opposed to the medeival lancing style.