THE ARMOR THREAD

hi, I am looking to find paintings, drawings, photos or pictures of armor from the following periods and regions:

1. Ancient Egypt (before 500 B.C.) (I don't see many paintings depicting Ancient Egyptians with armor)

2. Rome after 200 A.D. (The armor and helmets of Roman Empire after 200 A.D. differed from the ones we usually associate with in that they were cheaper to make and similar to Gothic counterparts)

3. Byzantine Empire (Very little evidence of Byzantine armor in the internet)

4. Mamluk Egypt (European drawings of Islamic armor is very highly inaccurate.)

5. Ottoman Empire before 1700 A.D. (I want to see how much Ottoman armor differed from European armor)

6. Mugul India (Very interested)

7. Ming China (Ming Armor changed through time.  Earlier Ming armor featured hilly scales and more traditional Chinese helmets.  Later Ming armor featured chain mails and  brigaindine suits.)

 

spahi from tha XV. century:

Byzantine heavy cavalry (source: Madrid National Library)

Taken from http://www.iranchamber.com

Parthian and Sassanian (Persian) Cataphracts

Top: Sassanian Standard-Bearer; Middle: Parthian Cataphract, CE 3rd Century; Bottom: Early Sassanian Cataphract, CE 3rd Century.

Left: Heavy armoured Sassanian Cavalry; Right: Light Parthian Cavalry

Heavy Armoured Sassanian Cavalry

 

http://www.romancoins.info/militaryequipment.html

This is a good site for original Roman Arms and Armour (i had to type the link in,for some reason i cant use the hyperlink button?i type the url into the addres bar click ok then it dissapears???)
Gavriel


Edited by Gavriel

Poirot Check Osprey pub. Books,
There are very nice illustrations in this books.

becuz of Copy Right law, I can only post covers:

 

 3rd century Roman legionary apparently, totally bizarre to see anything like this and associate it with Romans but the site says so  http://www.roman-empire.net/army/legionary-late.html

 

 Roman Cavalryman probably 5th century. http://www.roman-empire.net/army/cavalryman.html