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• Tsurtsumia, Mamuka
• TSURTSUMIA, Mamuka

Byzantine technology was part of the military technology that existedin vast areas of Eurasia; hence study of the armament of its neighbours isimportant.The purpose of the present paper is to add new data about Byzantium’sCaucasian neighbour (namely, Georgia). Besides that, it also includes certainviews about the stages of the evolution and provenance of splint (scale andlamellar) armour. This paper also attempts to clarify the difference betweenbanded and linear suits of lamellar armour.There is no doubt that the Byzantine military machine exercisedconsiderable influence on its neighbours, though an opposite phenomenoncan also be noticed. The article shows that changes in armour were takingplace almost simultaneously in the Byzantine Empire and the Georgiankingdoms and that some of the types of armour that were widespread inByzantium may have originated in Georgia.

• History and Archaeology

• Ιστορία

Byzantine armour, Georgian armour, Lamellar armour, Scale armour

Τα keywords δεν υπάρχουν στο πρωτότυπο τεκμήριο, 856:https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/bz/article/view/3742, DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/byzsym.976, Αιώνες: 10ος - 12ος

• http://byzsym.org/index.php/bz/article/view/976
• http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/byzsym.976