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Gandharan Statuette of a warrior.
Peshawar Museum.
![Gandharan Statuette of a warrior, 2nd-3rd centuries AD. Peshawar Museum.](http://warfare.6te.net/Ancient/img/Ghandaran-Statuette_of_a_warrior-Peshawar_Museum.jpg)
Fig. 27 Statuette of a warrior
A curious type of shield looking like the numeral 8 appears in a panel depicting a warrior wearing a double skirted cuirass (Fig. 27).
Source: "Weapons, Tools and Implements as depicted in Gandhara Art" by Toqeer Ahmad Warraich in Pakistan Heritage Volume 6 (2014)
Referenced as figure 73 in The military technology of classical Islam by D Nicolle
73. Statuette, 2nd-3rd centuries AD, Ghandaran, Peshawar Museum.
See also an Armoured Iranian(?) warrior in 'The Great Departure', 3rd to 5th centuries AD (?), post-Ghandaran, Lahore Museum.
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