After one year we complete working over our six realistic looking Persian re-enacting shields made from natural materials wood, leather and metalized umbos.

2022 We achieve the order of 11 Achaemenid period Dipylon shield in our Association store. (10) Infantryman Persian soldiers plus (1) commander –all eleven of them looking in the same way. Style is inspired, and taken from the Apadana palace bas- Mede and Persian soldiers reliefs. Iran - Persepolis - Eastern stairs - central wall. Only natural materials been used wood and leather.

February 2024
We complete the vision of our Persian army battle order -Arštibara in Persian - or Melophoroi, “apple-bearers” in Greek.

Persepolis, So‐called Apadana, Eastern stairway, Inside parapet,Soldiers.
References
A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 V

The battle order is presenting a small Persian army of more than 10 equally looking infantrymen and 2 standard-bearers. Not counting archers and satrap auxiliaries.
Step by step we work hard in other to achieve our dream producing replica of Persian Bronze spear butt Achaemenid period 5th century cemetery at Deve Huyuk in north Syria

References
Osprey Elite series 42 -N.Secunda, S.Chew - The Persian Army 560-330 BC
Hand making wax work took us a long time but we are happy with the final result.
Note that the number of the petals must be not more, no less but exactly 12 in number.

Gift Bearer from Persepolis, Southern Iran (Persepolis)500–450 B.C.Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
We managed to multiply 15 wax Persian spear butts, and they are ready now to be cast by brass.

We’ve been glad to have them back out of the successful casting process, and all our worries have been in vain so, one more step forward.

After that the rough rasp file was done, last step – polishing, shining, and this is the final result. Now they are shining in a divine bright way, like they are made of gold!


Thinking that the story of Cyrus the Great and princes Tomiris is so ancient back in time, but it is not. Actually Cyrus II of Persia lived and ruled in 600–530 BC.

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This is the Archaic period we have enough experience to re-enact, especially if we take in to account that a few years after the death of Cyrus the Great, he was inherited by Darius I (550 – 486 BCE) who started the Greco-Persian Wars.
References
2011 Special Issue The Battle of Marathon (e)

Satrap’s guard
Based on a description of the march of Xerxes’ personal guard during the expedition to Greece and an analysis of monumental reliefs from the palace complex in Persepolis, it can be surmised that the royal guard (copied by the satraps) formed two onethousand- strong elitist infantry units (royal shield-bearers called arštibara in Persian or doriphoroi in Greek, and sometimes, from the shape of the spear-butts, melophoroi, “apple-bearers”), and a detachment of guard veterans occasionally referred to as the “royal archers”. They had colorful uniforms, while the spear-butts of their weapons were the same as those of the officers of the ‘Immortal’ guards.

Detail of one of the reliefs from the palace of Darius I at Susa, showing the pomegranateshaped
spear-butt, similar to the round, apple-shaped spear-butts of other guardsmen.
 
Good addition in our store of more than 40 new (save arrows). They are ready, after we remove the metal sharp blades and exchange them with cork ends.
Actually safe shooting arrows are a very demanding and attractive addition on the re-enacting battlefield. Unfortunately, many of them go waist after the shooting as some of them simply get lost or have been stamped down -damaged badly. This is always a big loss because it is not cheap and not easy to supply so many arrows, simply losing them.