- The
sparabara,
meaning "shield bearers" in Old Persian, were the
front line
infantry of the
Achaemenid Persian Empire. They were
usually the
first to...
- The
Achaemenid infantry consisted of
three groups: the Immortals, the
Sparabara, and the Takabara,
though in the
later years of the
Achaemenid Empire...
- arrows.
Similar large shields made of
wicker were used by
Achaemenid sparabara infantry. The
Roman army
later adopted the scutum, a
large rectangular...
- swords. The
first rank of
Persian infantry formations, the so-called '
sparabara', had no bows,
carried larger wicker shields and were
sometimes armed...
-
behind it. The
Persian Immortal lines were
probably ten
files deep,
where sparabara were on the
front wearing scaled iron corslets,
armed with spears, bows...
-
formation was
known to be used by many
ancient armies including the
Persian Sparabara, Gr**** phalanx, and the
early Roman army, but its
origin and
spread is...
-
Kambouris (2022),
Kardaka may
refer to the
ethnic Persian draftees who were
sparabara archers initially and
later redelegated as
armored close-quarter soldiers...
- The
ancient Persian sparabara units: nine rows of
archers protected by one row of shield-bearers....
- form a
shield wall that
archers could fire over.
These troops (called
sparabara, or shield-bearers) were
equipped with a
large rectangular wicker shield...
- A
typical Persian formation, ten
ranks deep with
sparabara (heavy infantry) in front,
eight archers in the
middle and a
supervisor at the back....
