Subject: cavalry
Culture: Sassanid Persian
Setting: early Sassanid empire 3-5thC
Object: armor
Metropolitan Museum of Art *
"Helmet Bronze, silver, iron Mesopotamia or Iran Sasanian period, 5th century A.D. ....
The helmet, oriignally lined with leather, consists of broad bands of bronze
and iron plates covered with a thin layer of silver, stamped with a feather pattern.
The warrior's head would originally have been obscured and protected by a web
of metal links of mail that hung from the holes in the lower rim."
