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Evolution of Persian Cataphracts

Support more videos like this   / foojer   Made with iOS IbisPaint. Track used is Hamsafar by Christopher Tin, I don't own the rights to this track. A brief look at how the Persian heavy cavalryman changed over the course of about 1000 years. We generally call them cataphracts (a Greek word) but we're not sure what the Persians called them - best guess would be the the Middle Persian word 'asavaran' ('cavalrymen'). The first figure is based mostly on guess work - Xenophon mentions armoured Persian heavy cavalrymen under Cyrus the Younger with thigh protectors. The grivpan is also a known piece of Persian military gear. Otherwise the rest of the gear is conjecture. The second and third figures are more solid, based on a Parthian frieze (https://www.britishmuseum.org/researc...) and a graffito from Dura Europos (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/G.... The conical spangenhelm on the third figure is a bit of artistic interpretation; we're not entirely sure what the original helmet was supposed to be. The fourth figure is also mostly guess work, based partly on Heliodorus' accounts of armoured Persian cavalry in his Aethiopica. The mask is loosely based on a Sassanid sculpture (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect.... The Sassanids apparently flirted only briefly with the use of super-heavy cataphracts to punch through Roman lines - though fearsome in a charge they were unwieldy and tired too quickly. The fifth figure is based on the equestrian frieze at Taq e Bostan (http://www.irantraveller.org/uploads/..., possibly Khosrau II himself. Persian heavy cavalry by the 6th century were less like walking tanks and more armoured horse archers - I've left out this figure's bow and arrows but it would've been standard gear for a Persian heavy cavalryman at this point.