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."
