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Carving of the Shah at Taq-i-Bustan
Khusru (Khosro, Chosroes) II, Parviz
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Referenced on p.39, EH - 071 - D.Nicolle - The Great Islamic Conquests AD 632-750
The huge and almost freestanding rock-relief carving of one of the last Sassanian Shahinshah shows a horseman in full mail armour with a face-covering mail aventail hanging from the rim of his segmented helmet. He is armed with a heavy spear plus archery equipment and rides a partially armoured horse, (in situ Taq-i Bustan, Iran)
Referenced as figure 330 in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle
330A to 330I. Rock-cut statue, early 7th century AD, Sassanian, in situ Ṭāq-i Bustān (Fuk).
