Parthian Cataphract

mesopotamia, 7th century, while arabs began to invade sassanid territories most of parthians denied to support the persian empire. Disloyalty of parthians and many other non-persians into sassanid empire was a motivation for muslims to conquer persia.

This Drawing presents a battle scene of a parthian Cataphract with a yemeni camel rider in mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) during muslim conquest of mesopotamia.