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Illustration
Baked clay perforated plaque showing a heavily armoured horseman (cataphract) wearing scale or lamellar armour and a "coal skuttle" helmet, spearing a lion.
3rd century BCE - 2nd century CE
British Museum
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Cite This Work
APA Style
Museum, T. T. o. t. B. (2019, August 27). Parthian Cataphract. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11125/parthian-cataphract/
Chicago Style
Museum, The Trustees of the British. "Parthian Cataphract." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified August 27, 2019. https://www.worldhistory.org/image/11125/parthian-cataphract/.
MLA Style
Museum, The Trustees of the British. "Parthian Cataphract." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 27 Aug 2019. Web. 27 Jul 2024.
