Sassanid empire

Sassanid warrior during the Sassanid-Byzantine War

Persian cataphract.

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Cataphract Cavalry used at Callinicum Both the Persian Sassanid (above) and the Eastern Roman Empires used highly trained Cataphract armored horse archers. These highly mobile troops would let fly a deadly barrage of arrows into an enemy to break up their formation and then charge in for the kill. The Battle of Callinicum (April 19, 531 AD) was the last of a series of battles between the armies of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Sassanid Persian Empire in the Iberian War that lasted from…

Sassanid armour reconstruction from the 6th century. Lammelar-mail mix!

Here we see a heavy armored horseman from eastern Iran. He is based on the coins minted by Kushashans, "governors" or "viceroys" from the house of Sasan. Inanian and central Asian iconography atteats to the survival and local development of the Hellenistic muscle cuirass, at least among the highest status warriors. In the background a Sassanid mounted lancer, based on the famous Firusabad frieze, fights an Arab infantryman like his comrade in the foreground. They are both based on one of…