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Wider Wargaming => Genre/Period Discussion => Ancients to Renaissance (3000BC - 1680) => Topic started by: Druzhina on 03 February 2017, 04:41:15 AM

Title: Armoured cavalrymen attacking a fortress, from Semireçye in Central Asia
Post by: Druzhina on 03 February 2017, 04:41:15 AM
I have found a good image of armoured cavalrymen attacking a fortress, from Semireçye in Central Asia, 9th-10th century, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, S-46 (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/6-10/Plate-Semirecye-St_Petersburg.htm)
(http://i1368.photobucket.com/albums/ag197/druzhina345/Ancient/th/Plate-Semirecye-St_Petersburg_th.jpg)

It is probably the siege of Jericho even though the man holding an ark and the seven trumpeters are on the lower lover of the fortification.
There are three standards shown, various maces, one perhaps an animals head, the bowcases are for unstrung bows, the quivers for arrows point upwards.  The helmets have knobs or points on top and a hint of a nasal similar to illustrations of helmets from the Tarim basin (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/6-10/Tarim-helmets.htm).

Druzhina
Plates with figures from Persia and Central Asia (http://www.warfare.altervista.org/Ancient/Sasanian_and_Central_Asian_Plates.htm)
Title: Re: Armoured cavalrymen attacking a fortress, from Semireçye in Central Asia
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 03 February 2017, 07:01:06 AM
Thank you for your hard work D, great find
Title: Re: Armoured cavalrymen attacking a fortress, from Semireçye in Central Asia
Post by: d_Guy on 03 February 2017, 11:44:39 AM
Amazing collection, thanks for posting.
Title: Re: Armoured cavalrymen attacking a fortress, from Semireçye in Central Asia
Post by: FierceKitty on 03 February 2017, 11:58:54 AM
"...lower lover..." ? ? ?    :o