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Pax Romana Art
Sarmatian Riders
The Danube frontier · 1st–3rd century AD
740 kr876 kr
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- Printed in the USA. Printed, stretched, and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Canvas, framed or not. Stretched over FSC-certified wooden bars, or set in a wooden frame with a 12 mm gap around it.
- Hanging hardware included. Framed canvas arrives assembled, with the hanger attached.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
Details & specs
Framed canvas
- Canvas (cotton-polyester blend)
- Set in a wooden frame with a 12 mm (0.45″) gap around the canvas
- 42 mm (1.65″) deep
- Arrives assembled and ready to hang: hanger attached, screws or nails included
Canvas
- Canvas (cotton-polyester blend)
- Stretched over FSC-certified wooden bars
- Hanging hardware included
- Sizes: 18x12″ · 24x16″ · 36x24″
- Orientation: Horizontal
- Medium: Canvas
- Style: History painting
- Era: Timeless
Shipping & returns
Made to order and printed and framed in the USA. Produced in 1–2 business days, delivered 2–5 business days after that — 3–7 business days door to door. Free US shipping, tracked.
Damaged, defective or the wrong item? Email a photo within 7 days of delivery and we send a free replacement or a full refund. Because every piece is made to order, change-of-mind returns are not accepted.
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Sarmatian RidersFramed canvas · Black · 18x12″
740 kr
876 krSave 136 kr
The Danube frontier · 1st–3rd century AD
Armored Horsemen of the Steppe
The Sarmatians were a group of Iranian-speaking nomadic peoples who moved west across the steppes in the last centuries BC. By the first century AD, tribes such as the Roxolani and the Iazyges lived along Rome's Danube frontier, the Iazyges on the plain between the Danube and the Tisza in modern Hungary. Tacitus describes Roxolani nobles in AD 69 armored in iron plates or hardened leather and fighting with long lances and very long swords, hard to stop in a charge but helpless once unhorsed.
The Iazyges fought Rome in the Marcomannic Wars. In AD 175, according to Cassius Dio, they made peace with Marcus Aurelius and handed over 8,000 cavalry, of whom 5,500 were sent to Britain. Sarmatian troopers are still recorded at Ribchester in Lancashire generations later. The riders on Trajan's Column wear scale armor covering both man and horse, and the dragon standard, a metal head trailing a cloth tail that filled with wind, was later carried by Roman cavalry too, as Arrian describes.
The piece
The painting lines the column up on a long diagonal into the distance. The leading rider, closest to us, sits easy in the saddle, his lance upright and his plumed helmet catching the light. His horse wears a full coat of scale down to the knees. Behind him the standard-bearer lifts the dragon high, its red tail cracking across the clouds. The rest of the column fades back into the grass and the pale horizon.
Materia · The materials
Canvas, framed or not.
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Wooden stretcher bars
The canvas is stretched over FSC-certified wooden bars.
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Floating frame
Black, natural wood or dark brown, with a 12 mm (0.45″) gap around the canvas. 42 mm (1.65″) deep.
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Ready for the wall
Framed canvas arrives assembled, hanger attached, screws or nails included. Canvas comes with its hanging hardware.
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