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foojer β€” Cataphracts across the world, 5th c BC - 6th c AD

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Equipment notes:
Achaemenid Persian (5th c BC) - 'Assyrian' type helmet, scale gorget (grivpanvar), laminar arm guards, scale horse chest and flank armour (peytral and flanchard)
Greco-Baktrian (3rd c BC) - Attic-Boeotian helmet, muscle cuirass, laminar arm guards, cloth thigh guards (pteryges), greaves, lamellar peytral
Ptolemaic (2nd BC) - Konos type helmet, linen cuirass, felt arm and leg guards, felt barding
Seleucid (1st c BC) - Konos type helmet with face mask, muscle cuirass, laminar arm guards, pteryges, greaves, scale barding, crested plate chamfron
Sarmatian (1st c AD) - Spangenhelm, scale cuirass with shoulder guards, scale barding
Sogdian (1st c AD) - Lamellar helmet, neck guard (gorget), shoulder guards (spaulders) and forearm guards (vambraces), thigh guards (cuisses)
Eastern Han (1st c AD) - lamellar helmet, thigh-length cuirass with raised collar, shoulder guards / 'sleeves' (pauldrons?), lamellar 'trousers' (my interpretation but knees seem weirdly unprotected), felt or linen peytral
Parthian (3rd c AD) - Conical spangenhelm with full-face mail aventail, thigh-length scale and plate cuirass, laminar arm guards, mail leggings (chausses), plate greaves and foot guards, scale barding
Sassanid (4th c AD) - 'thimble' type helmet with face mask, mail aventail, thigh-length lamellar cuirass, laminar arm guards, laminar leg guards, scale barding
Roman (4th c AD) - Deir el-Medina type Spangenhelm, scale shoulder guard and thigh-length cuirass, laminar arm and leg guards, scale barding
Goguryeo (5th c AD) - lamellar helmet, gorget, spaulders, cuirass, and armoured skirt, lamellar barding
Romano-Byzantine (6th c AD) - Baldenheim type helmet, lamellar spaulders and thigh-length cuirass, plate chafron, lamellar peytral and neck guard (criniere)
Arthurian (6th c AD) - artistic license - Deurne type helmet (possibly evolved into Staffordshire type helmet), chainmail hauberk, lamellar cuirass, plate greaves, felt peytral
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Svetoslawa [2021-12-07 16:30:38 +0000 UTC]

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Drawer07879 [2021-08-01 04:57:14 +0000 UTC]

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Orphydian [2021-02-21 13:43:18 +0000 UTC]

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foojer In reply to Orphydian [2021-02-21 15:17:16 +0000 UTC]

Well the seleucids probably fielded cataphracts pretty early on, but this figure is based on pretty late evidence, around the 2nd or so century BC

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Orphydian In reply to foojer [2021-02-21 15:23:12 +0000 UTC]

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foojer In reply to Orphydian [2021-02-22 17:09:13 +0000 UTC]

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darklord86 [2021-01-06 04:33:57 +0000 UTC]

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madmax2472 In reply to JhudielTheOne [2021-01-05 20:39:28 +0000 UTC]

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