Illustrations of Sassanid Persian Clibanarii

[Longovicium]

Tsurtsumia in his review of Grotowski's 'Arms and Armour of the Warrior Saints . . .' (Brill 2010), argues in favour of the 'tanurig'/oven hypothesis. He states that in Georgian, both a heavily-equipped rider and horse, and an oven, use the same root word 'torn-i' is armour; 'torn-e' is an oven. The same word denotes both oven and armoured rider. Thus he supports the idea that clibanarius has derived from the Greek word for oven.