The panoply of the armoured personage from the capital from Bisotun. Remarks on the spread of the military technology along the Silk Road

The armour of the personage depicted on capital from Bisotun, exhibited in Ṭāq-e Bostān, has been an object research already several times with no definite setting typology arms and allocation historical trends. article attempts to fill this gap. defines helmet as lamellar/laminar type splints ornately incised edges central splint over personage’s nose. top dome is crowned by decorative, solid finial which a korymbos attached. This relates lamellar helmets Xinjiang Tang Dynasty China rather than [?] earlier Kushan related Eurasian types, characterised flat, round sheet at dome, usually face, often nasal laminae running overlapping around without lamina face other spreading its sides. body can be described cuirass made metallic stripes riveted each placed horizon­tally, central, vertical stripe front. derived Parthian predecessors plausible earlier, Achaemenid Hellenistic sources. frontal opening was dominant construction among Sasanian armours. direct relation evidenced Korean Japanese cuirasses 3rd 4th centuries (later replaced coats) Eurasian, mainly types.