The panoply of the armoured personage from the capital from Bisotun. Remarks on the spread of the military technology along the Silk Road
Journal: Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia
Year: 2022

The armour of the personage depicted on the capital from Bisotun, exhibited in Ṭāq-e Bostān, has been an object of the research already several times with no definite setting in typology of arms and armour and allocation in historical trends. The article attempts to fill this gap. The article defines the helmet as lamellar/laminar type with the splints with ornately incised edges and central splint over the personage’s nose. The top of the dome is crowned by the decorative, solid finial to which