10-18-2011, 07:22 PM
Regarding breastplates in use by Sassanians - AW magazine seems to think they used iron/bronze ones, in the Greek fashion:
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I strongly disagree, however, since if those a tin covered bronze breastplates they aren't any more protective than mail + lamellar, and if those are iron ones, they would be terribly impractical to make with little added in protection.
@Renatus - Sassanids are known to have used face masks due to literary evidence, like Ammianus' famous "statues of metal" quote.
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I strongly disagree, however, since if those a tin covered bronze breastplates they aren't any more protective than mail + lamellar, and if those are iron ones, they would be terribly impractical to make with little added in protection.
@Renatus - Sassanids are known to have used face masks due to literary evidence, like Ammianus' famous "statues of metal" quote.