From Duncan on the DBMM List:<\/p>\n
I think the intention is that the Guard are all Persians – the original hypaspists having been sent back towards Macedonia. Luke at\u00a0http:\/\/www.ne.jp\/asahi\/luke\/ “Melophoroi and archer guards: Persian guard spearmen and archers were used, and it is possible that these were used in a mixed formation as in the earlier Achaemenid empire, like the old Immortals, hence the provision for Bw (X). The archers at least seem to have been divided into 3 companies (Polyainos gives three differing uniform colours).”<\/p>\n Polyainos has “Stationed round the pavilion within were, first, five hundred Persians, dressed in purple and white vests: and next to those an equal number of archers in different dresses yellow, blue, and scarlet” –https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/ Ailian’s version is “first of all 500 Persians called apple-bearers (melophoroi) dressed in purple and quince-yellow; then came 1,000 archers dressed in flame-colour and scarlet”.<\/p>\n So your front rank is Persian “apple-bearers” probably with bronze hoplite shields, hoplite spears with the “apple” on the butt, purple tunics perhaps with the central white stripe of the royal tunic, and yellow caps – Sekunda in the Persian Osprey reconstructs one, under Darius, with yellow belt and red-and-yellow lozenge-patterned trousers. The rear ranks are archers in uniform yellow, bright red, and probably blue tunics. As Peter said, this matches the uniforms that Sekunda reconstructed from the Sarcophagus.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not, obviously that I would ever do anything as bad as fielding the experimental phalanx, but useful guide for painting LAPs as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Duncan on the DBMM List: I think the intention is that the Guard are all Persians – the original hypaspists having been sent back towards Macedonia. Luke at\u00a0http:\/\/www.ne.jp\/asahi\/luke\/ueda-sarson\/AlexImpDBM.html\u00a0http:\/\/www.ne.jp\/asahi\/luke\/ueda-sarson\/AlexImpDBM.html\u00a0said: “Melophoroi and archer guards: Persian guard spearmen and archers were used, and it is possible that these were used in a mixed formation as in the … Continue reading “Aide-memoire – Persian uniforms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancients-wargaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thudandblunder.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}