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Post by cataphract on Aug 23, 2007 0:24:14 GMT 3
 Lycian tomb of Payava.Look at the legs of the horseman. Greetings. Cataphract |
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Post by Temüjin on Aug 23, 2007 23:14:15 GMT 3
mmmh, it's really difficult to interprete the nature of this leg protection thing...  |
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Post by cataphract on Aug 25, 2007 23:23:16 GMT 3
 By the 1st century AD the Bosporans were dominated by the Sarmatians, which meant that they, for a great deal, took over the Sarmatian way of live,way of fighting and armour. Look at the scale armour and spangenhelmet. Has anybody other pictures of Bosporan warriors? Greetings. Cataphract |
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Post by Temüjin on Aug 26, 2007 20:56:13 GMT 3
this is the only other picture i know that i ahven't posted yet. shows a Sarmatian Amazon warrior in combat with a Bosporan (Graeco-Scythian) warrior. there is also a Bosphoran warrior on the plate with Attila and the Ostrogoth warrior.  BTW i've already posted your picture in the main thread. |
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Post by cataphract on Aug 28, 2007 13:51:20 GMT 3
I used the picture because it's the only historically correct picture I knew of depicting Bosporans.
I was so eager to post the picture because the Bosporans are one of the, maybe the only, people who in early history almost completely adopted steppe warfare and armour.
Greetings.
Cataphract
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Post by Temüjin on Aug 28, 2007 20:58:02 GMT 3
yes, but technically the Bosporan Kigndom was already located on the Steppe (southern Ukraine & Crimea)  |
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Post by Temüjin on Sept 25, 2007 22:49:36 GMT 3
even though my people are not descendant of Steppe people, Germanic warriors were also in some parts influenced by Steppe warriors: Burgundians with draco standard:   also defensive equippment, Spangenhelm and lamellar armour:   |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Sept 26, 2007 3:03:54 GMT 3
Very nice drawings  |
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Post by Temüjin on Mar 12, 2008 23:12:19 GMT 3
about the leg protection thing:  this is a statue of General Güemes, an Argentinian commander that fought for Latin American independence. he was commander of gauchos and it seems they too used a similar form of leg protection. i don't know however what exactly their advantage was... BTW, i will also continue this thread, i have still a couple of interesting pics. |
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Post by mwe on Apr 30, 2008 2:35:57 GMT 3
Wallachia  Polish  Moscow  -edited- removed irrelevant pics. |
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Post by mwe on May 1, 2008 1:39:19 GMT 3
Cossack  Russia  -edited- removed irrelvenat pictures |
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Post by Temüjin on May 2, 2008 20:39:18 GMT 3
 why you keep posting unrelated pictures? Polish Hussars and Burgundians have nothing to do with the Steppe at all.... |
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on May 3, 2008 2:14:15 GMT 3
Hmm I think he posted the Burgundian because he's a mounted archer. And the Cossacks, Poles and Russians because they look similar to Islamic Turkic (Ottoman, Tatar, Qazaq, etc) warriors.
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Post by Temüjin on May 8, 2008 21:37:39 GMT 3
yes Russians adopted quite some Steppe elements, Poles on the other hand not really, at least not units from Poland proper (winged hussars etc). also the Burgundian archers only moved on horseback but fought on foot. they are nothing but longbowmen on horseback, it was a completely independent development from the Steppe.
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Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on May 9, 2008 0:12:25 GMT 3
Yes indeed. Polish winged hussars look much more similar to Sarmatian cataphracts or European knights (no wonder how some Polish noble families claimed ancestry from the Sarmatians ). |
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why you keep posting unrelated pictures? Polish Hussars and Burgundians have nothing to do with the Steppe at all....