Scythian Armour

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Saka


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/C ... e08ae3.jpg

hey
photo is great but these guys are Saka 'wanna be'
the forefront one is ridding in stirrups, all got akinakes/swords on the wrong side - should have been on the right side. swords were hung from the belts on a piece of wide leather - look at the Gorelik reconstructions or Persepolis Apadana freeze.
Horse gear off by centuries as they are ridding in modern saddles (sort of hidden under the saddle cloth - by the way these shabraques are also pure fantasy), and even then wrong and some more
eg horse tails untied, unshaven manes, forelock not tied with a ribbon or plaited, lack of a proper breastplate and no crupper! the bridles and bits are wrong as well -
also, highly unlikely they would have ridden a gray horse as they probably did not occur then amongst the Central Asia horses. I am not sure about the stockinged one, probably also a no-no.

and what these guys are doing without gorytos (arrows and bow), perhaps would carry reed shields and sagaris/chekan/war-axes .. and some horsewhip would have been great to complete their panoply..

Funny headgear sort of mixtures of a Persian cup and Saka tall bashlyk - one bad reconstruction

Are these from Alexander the movie?