Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter - Kaveh Farrokh

3 Sasanian armaments and tactics 67
Fig. 3 Equestrian statue of Xusrō II at Taq-i Bustan
(Ghirshman, R. (1962) Iran. Parthians and Sassanians: fig. 235)
(Photo: Ph. Claude Deffarge-Rapho)
the monumentality of the work and the many details eagerly added by the
artist (fig. 4).
Testimonies such as the two passages that opened this chapter attest not
only to the Western insight into Persian customs and tactics but also to
an awareness in the West that the powerful Persian military was well worthy
of and in need of investigation. 17 The respect accorded to the Persians
17 Cf. also Lee 1993a: 103–4.