Preview II: The Sassanid Dynasty of Persia

**Joar** · December 20, 2011, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Lionheart

Now i now i'm beeing a pest: so when you show us the Gallic Empire preview? Or the roman preview? Or now you are just focus in the german tribes?

A very good question. A very good question indeed...

**julianus heraclius** · December 20, 2011, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by Lionheart;

Now i now i'm beeing a pest: so when you show us the Gallic Empire preview? Or the roman preview? Or now you are just focus in the german tribes?

The answer is no and no.

**Diocle** · December 20, 2011, 03:16 PM

Only Juppiter and Heracles know the truth, and only them can see the general perspective of the world and its design!

We, humble and loyals followers, are only discussing, in a small and recondite corner, our hopes and limited views about the peripheral world of the Germans, but this has nothing to do with the great will of the Gods themselves!!!!

**Salvor Hardin** · December 23, 2011, 12:39 PM

Excellent preview. Congratulations, Joar and J. Heraclius.

**Gäiten** · December 23, 2011, 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by Salvor Hardin

Excellent preview. Congratulations, Joar and J. Heraclius.

Yes, it fits very good the 3rd century Sassanians.

**b257** · May 01, 2013, 02:13 PM

I have a question, what is the name of the helmet used by Dismounted Savaran? Just curious.

**julianus heraclius** · May 01, 2013, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by b257

I have a question, what is the name of the helmet used by Dismounted Savaran? Just curious.

It comes from a find in Dura Europos in the 3rd century. Here's a picture:

**Gäiten** · May 06, 2013, 01:08 PM

The design is called ridge helmet, because a ridge was used to connect two separate halves.

**Diocle** · May 06, 2013, 01:32 PM

Yes Gaiten, the ridge helmet!

....one question: what is the strange string or Strip-shaped scale running down from the top of the helmet in the drawing posted by JH?

My partner and I gave opposite interpretations of the strip:....she told me that it is some form of decoration applied to the helmet but I find it very strange.....it's disturbing!

**Sertorio** · May 06, 2013, 02:27 PM

My guess its a ribbon.

**Gäiten** · May 07, 2013, 01:47 AM

Yes, these are ribbons, colored or with patterns, flying in the wind while riding.

Fancy, is not it?

**Diocle** · May 07, 2013, 08:27 AM

Yes fancy,.... the monumental spectacle of a charge at the trot of a mass of thousands of Persian Clibanarii should be fantastic, with silk tunics covering the armors, and mantles and the horses covered with robes also colorful.... and the sound of the drums of war

(we in Italy call them 'Timballi'..I don't know the English for the horse drums...).....the Sassanids were really the 'Perfect Enemy' for Rome.

The beauty, the colors, the sounds,..... probably were really almost hypnotics, I see them as useful tools to mesmerize the enemy more than to terrify him.......

Twisted and Complex Oriental Wisdom perverting the the simple and austere Roman 'Virtus'! ....