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General Category => Army Research => Topic started by: Ade G on Apr 26, 2020, 04:06 PM

Title: Kusham command elephants?
Post by: Ade G on Apr 26, 2020, 04:06 PM
Any ideas what an elephant carrying a Kushan commander would look like? Tower, platform or the Indian housings ridden astride? It is about time I painted the figures I have for this army and a search has not been very fruitful.
Title: Re: Kusham command elephants?
Post by: Duncan Head on Apr 26, 2020, 04:26 PM
Khurasan's command elephants (http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/kushan.html) are based on a representation (a terracotta?) with tower and plate barding illustrated in Nikonorov's Armies of Bactria book.
Title: Re: Kusham command elephants?
Post by: Ade G on Apr 26, 2020, 07:25 PM
Thank you Duncan. I have the Nikorov book but read previously that the plates may have been textile not metal