01-19-2018, 01:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-19-2018, 03:19 PM by Michael Kerr.)
Eleatic Guest wrote: What type of horse armour could that be? Maybe organic stuff?
Could be but when you look at the rider closely you can see a sort of high neck collar attached which Alanus mentioned of the Kushan warrior and Chinese so probably not organic. Apologies for quality, original images were small and blowing them up in size degrades them slightly. Obviously not wearing a helmet with a protruding visor so depiction looks like the Scythian/Saka style cap that points forward like the caps on the Kul-Oba vase.
I found an artists impression of what the other fragment showing the bottom of the horse might have been trying to represent. The artist's depiction looks like some form of leg protection attached to either the horse's neck or attached to the horse barding but to me it looks like the rider is wearing a long coat like riders in Orlat plaque with his legs at the bottom with folds of trousers protruding or the same sort of limb protection as shown above of the equipment of the Seleucid cataphract.
Could be but when you look at the rider closely you can see a sort of high neck collar attached which Alanus mentioned of the Kushan warrior and Chinese so probably not organic. Apologies for quality, original images were small and blowing them up in size degrades them slightly. Obviously not wearing a helmet with a protruding visor so depiction looks like the Scythian/Saka style cap that points forward like the caps on the Kul-Oba vase.
I found an artists impression of what the other fragment showing the bottom of the horse might have been trying to represent. The artist's depiction looks like some form of leg protection attached to either the horse's neck or attached to the horse barding but to me it looks like the rider is wearing a long coat like riders in Orlat plaque with his legs at the bottom with folds of trousers protruding or the same sort of limb protection as shown above of the equipment of the Seleucid cataphract.
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Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"
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