- A
cataphract was a form of
armoured heavy cavalry that
originated in
Persia and was
fielded in
ancient warfare throughout Eurasia and
Northern Africa....
-
believed to be the
originator of the
class of
heavy cavalry known as
cataphract.
During the time of
Achaemenid Persia cavalry was the
elite arm of service...
- the
Great in the 4th
century BCE it
likely made its way -
along with
cataphract technology - into
European military practices via the
Seleucid Empire...
- kataphraktos,
meaning "covered over" or "completely covered" (see
Cataphract).
Heavily armoured cataphract cavalry,
usually armed with a long
lance (contus), were...
- by the aristocracy, were
heavily armored, and
ranged from
archers to
cataphracts. The word
comes from the Old
Persian word asabāra (from asa- and bar...
-
highly specialised types of troops. The
creation of
heavily armoured cataphract-type
soldiers as
cavalry was an
important feature of the 5th-century Roman...
- The
Issyk Golden Cataphract Warrior, is a suit of
armor consisting of
thousands of gold
pieces found by
chance in 1969
during the
construction of a garage...
-
categorize them as
cataphracts (fully armored, a type of
cavalry not to be
confused with the Seleucid,
Parthian or
Byzantine cataphracts) and
aphracts (unarmored)...
-
fought with
javelins and the
machaira sword. The use of
heavily armored cataphracts and also
horse archers was
adopted by the Seleucids, Greco-Bactrians...
- the Iranians,
especially Achaemenid successors' cavalry, most
notably cataphracts (Grivpanvar). A
shift in the
terminology used to
describe Sarmatian weapons...
