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druzhina
07-22-2017, 01:37
Moya Catherine Carey uses a silver-gilt plate (Sasanian period) Iran Bastan Museum 1275, Tehran (http://warfare.tk/6-10/Sassanid-Plate-Bastan-1275.htm), for the typical costume on Sasanian royal hunting plates:
http://warfare.meximas.com/Ancient/th/Sassanid-Plate-Bastan-1275_th.jpg

It has the king sitting backwards on the horse. This is unusual as other Sassanid and post Sassanid plates have figures making Parthian shots mounted normally. For example:


http://warfare.meximas.com/Ancient/th/Turushev_plate_th.jpg
Turushev plate, A Sasanian King Hunting Lions, 310-320 CE, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Turushev_plate.htm)

http://warfare.meximas.com/Ancient/th/Cleveland_Hormizd_plate_th.jpg
Hormizd plate, A Sasanian King Hunting Lions, 5th-6th Century, The Cleveland Museum of Art 1962.150 (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Cleveland_Hormizd_plate.htm)

http://warfare.meximas.com/Ancient/th/Ufa_plate_th.jpg
Ufa plate, Sasanian King Hunting Mountain Sheep, 1st half 7th century, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/6-10/Ufa_plate.htm)

http://warfare.meximas.com/Ancient/th/StPetersburg-Dish_with_hunting_scene_th.jpg
Post Sasanian or Khorosanian Dish with hunting scene, 7th-9th century, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (http://warfare.tk/Persia/StPetersburg-Dish_with_hunting_scene.htm)


Did they ride facing backwards? Is Iran Bastan Museum 1275 plate indeed Sasanian? Does it have a better dating?

Mirror site:
Silver-gilt plate (Sasanian period) Iran Bastan Museum 1275, Tehran (http://warfare.ga/6-10/Sassanid-Plate-Bastan-1275.htm)

Druzhina
Plates with figures from Persia and Central Asia (http://warfare.tk/Ancient/Sasanian_and_Central_Asian_Plates.htm)

Fragony
07-25-2017, 10:23
Why not, I can switch to backwards position with ease myself if I am not on a saddle so it's perfectly doable, horses will always follow what's before them. I can even stand on a horse at great speed but that wasn't always a good idea for me

druzhina
07-29-2017, 01:18
Why not, I can switch to backwards position with ease myself if I am not on a saddle so it's perfectly doable, horses will always follow what's before them. I can even stand on a horse at great speed but that wasn't always a good idea for me

Could you shoot a bow while backwards?

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://warfare.ml/index.htm)

Fragony
07-30-2017, 12:01
Could you shoot a bow while backwards?

Druzhina
Illustrations of Costume & Soldiers (http://warfare.ml/index.htm)

Probably but not very good, I am ok at horseriding and ok at shooting a bow, never tried it doing it both at the same time, it must be really hard