"Yuezhi (Yue-Chi) / Kushans" Topic

Are there many contemporary illustrations of Yuezhi (Yue-Chi) / Kushans?
Some I have found are on textiles woven in China, Syria or Bactria with embroidery by the Yuezhi/Kushans of Bactria:
Yuezhi men embroidered on three pieces of a carpet, Noyon Uul, Mongolia, after 120 BC
Similar to the shield of Fig. 3 (3) are Pazyryk Culture Wood and Leather Shields, 5th century BC, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Yuezhi spearman on a textile from Tomb No. 1, Sampula (Khotan Prefecture, Xinjiang), after 120 BC
Compare this to the armour-bearer from the frieze of Khaltchayan Reception Hall, 50 BC-50 AD, north Bactria

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Scythian, Saka and Sarmatian Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers
and Pazyryk Culture, Yuezhi, Parthians, White Huns, Hephthalites and Alchon Huns

In terms of size, 3(3)'s shield is closer to the Achaemenid spara/gerrhon than to the Pazyryk example – see

for instance.

The Orlat Battle Plaque on your list? Would that someone would make these horsemen with the high collars in 28mm.

Thank you for sharing this information!

In terms of size, 3(3)'s shield is closer to the Achaemenid spara/gerrhon than to the Pazyryk example

But not in the pattern perhaps made by its method of construction. similar patterns are produced on a Graeco-Roman or Parthian Leather and Cane Shield, Dura-Europos (Syria) ca. 323 B.C.-A.D. 256 and a shield at top right of Sculptures of Sargon II at Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad), The Assyrians Besiege and Assault the City of Pazashi (Panzish), in 715BC

The Orlat Battle Plaque on your list?

With dates ranging from 2nd century BC to 5th century AD, is the Orlat Battle Plaque, early Sarmatian {Kangju (K'ang-kiu) or Yuezhi} or Hun {Tashtyk, 'White Huns' – the Hephthalites?
The high collars are like an armoured bodhisattva from Mucilinda cave, 8th century, Tuyoq

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Tokharians and Uighurs of the City States of Central Asia in Frescos etc from the Tarim Basin

As always this is tremendous stuff. If only it could all be pulled together into a book. I know there are various existing Ospreys and Montverts which deal with parts but to get it all together with good quality illos would be an acievement.

And for some figure manufacturer to take up the challenge . . .1st Corps already do excellent Saka and Aventine do both early and late Sassanids. But no one does those defensive collars and associated armour types, I don't think.