Mykale, a naval battle?

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The Saka Tigrakhauda on the Apadana are wearing identical costume to the Medes, even down to the shoes and the way they are tied. The only thing different is the head dress. They also bring similar gifts as tribute. This is not supprising as they occupied The area which is now the Turkmanistan/Iran boarder. They may even be the Skythians that settled in Media after the migration in the Assyrian period.
The problem with the throne bearers is that pretty much none of them are wearing the same costume as the peoples on the Apadana.

But the costume of the throne bearers aligns much better with the other evidence we have for the costume of the Saka, both in Achaemenid art and from Saka sources. I guess it could just be assumed that the Saka tribute bearers are representative of a Medized population, while the others represent the rest of the Saka.

Ruben,double belted chitons appear in greek art at least since middle 5th century. Several of the Athenians on the Parthenon frieze wear them,and if this is the persian chiton,then it had to be already existing in Persia itself!
Khaire
Giannis

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...eze-bb.jpg
This is a very interesting one,which shows a slave boy helping the aristocrat youth drape the chiton. With his left hand he's pulling more matterial up,so it can be belted under the hidden belt.
EDIT: Also note that his chiton is long sleeved,exactly like Alexander's and the Persians' on the Alex. sarcophagus. On the Alex. mosaic,Alexander is the only greek with long sleeves,and Alexander was the first to adopt Persian dress. In the hunt fresco on the Vergina Tomb II Alexander wears a chiton draped like this,but in that case it's sleeveless

http://www.costumes.org/history/kohler/87Greek.JPG
This one is clearer.

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-conten ... lockiv.jpg
And in this one the first man is wearing a muscled cuirass and under its lower edge we see the "kolpos" of the chiton,chich might have been of an "eastern" chiton,or might not. The are more depictions of it on the frieze,and perhaps in funerary stelae befor or in the beginning of the 4th century.

And here is me wearing my chiton in such way
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1133/473 ... 776151.jpg

I'm not sure the athenians would be very reluctant to adopt anything that was in fashion,even if it was Persian in origin(and if it was,would they know it?). Persians and Ionians were in constant contact,and if the Ionians adopted something,then why not the Athenians too?
Khaire
Giannis

I wasn't aware of the first image - it definitely looks like a fashion adopted earlier, then. But are there any other depictions of such tunics being worn before the late 4th c. BC? It may have been adopted as a fashion in the 5th c. BC, but it certainly didn't become widespread until the time of Alexander, when many cavalrymen are depicted wearing such tunics, such as this fellow:

http://antiquemilitaryhistory.com/image ... belted.jpg