Artilce: Armour of the Cataphractarius from the “Roshava Dragana” Burial Mound

[nikgaukroger]

Looking at Academia.edu (as you do) came across this:

https://www.academia.edu/36784279/Armour_of_the_Cataphractarius_from_the_Roshava_Dragana_Burial_Mound

Not read it yet but the title was interesting 

[DougM]

Looks like a real mix of styles, but some serious issues with reconstruction. A quick read through suggests they have lots of fragments but conflicting ideas about where the fragments should be..

[Duncan Head]

It's nice to see a proper article in English about this find. I'd not seen it called "Roshava Dragana" before, it's more often just "Catalka". I always found the leg-armour reconstruction shown in fig.40 a bit hard to believe! I have wondered whether all the finds were even worn together, or if some of it was simply trophies taken from the Sarmatians.

[DougM]

It's nice to see a proper article in English about this find. I'd not seen it called "Roshava Dragana" before, it's more often just "Catalka". I always found the leg-armour reconstruction shown in fig.40 a bit hard to believe! I have wondered whether all the finds were even worn together, or if some of it was simply trophies taken from the Sarmatians.

That's a very good point Duncan. The variety and inconclusive analysis of the finds makes it difficult to see how the equipage could be worn by one individual.

[Duncan Head]

There's a brief summary of the article here which has a colour version of the helmet reconstruction.