Kandys

Kandys ( Greek κάνδυς , probably from the old Persian * kandu- for coat or * kantu- for to cover ) is the Greek name of an old Persian or Median piece of clothing.

The Kandys was a heavy, ankle-length cloak with a V-shaped neckline and long sleeves. It lies over the shoulders and is held together by knotted ribbons or brooches. It is probably of Median origin and was in Achaemenid times, certainly in the 6th century BC. In use as military clothing. The first mention is found in Xenophon's anabasis as the outer clothing of high officers Cyrus the Younger . According to Carsten Binder, the royal Kandys was made of purple fabric (ἁλιπόρφϋρος κάνδυς), while the simple Kandys was made of leather. Numerous images of a Kandy can be found on reliefs in Persepolis , on tablets and statuettes from the Oxus treasure and on reliefs from the Phrygian Daskyleion . The monumental statues in the commagenic hierothesion on Nemrut Dağı and the reliefs there of the Persian ancestors of King Antiochus are also clothed with the Kandys.

literature

Ingrid Loschek : Reclam's fashion and costume lexicon. 5th, updated and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-010577-3 , p. 287.
Tullia Linders: The Kandys in Greece and Persia. In: Opuscula Atheniensia. Annual of the Swedish Institute at Athens. Vol. 15, 1984, ISSN 0078-5520 , pp. 107-114.
Georgina Thompson: Iranian Dress in the Achaemenian Period: Problems concerning the Kandys and Other Garments. In: Iran. Vol. 3, 1965, ISSN 0578-6967 , pp. 121-126.

Web links

Rüdiger Schmitt: Candys . In: Ehsan Yarshater (Ed.): Encyclopædia Iranica (English, including references)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Carsten Binder: Plutarch's Vita des Artaxerxes. A historical commentary (= Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies. Supplements to the Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies . New series. Vol. 1). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020269-4 , p. 154 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - Simultaneously: Düsseldorf, Universität, Dissertation, 2007).
^ Mary Boyce : A history of Zoroastrianism. Volume 2: Under the Achaemenians (= Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East. Volume 8: Religion. Section 1: Religious History of the Ancient Orient. Delivery 2, Booklet 2a). Brill, Leiden et al. 1982, ISBN 90-04-06506-7 , p. 20, limited preview in the Google book search.
↑ Xenophon Anabasis 1, 5, 8
↑ Josef Wiesehöfer (ed.): The Parthian Empire and its testimonies = The Arsacid Empire: Sources and Documentation (= Historia. Individual writings . H. 122). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-515-07331-0 , pp. 66 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Donald H. Sanders, JH Young: Sculpture Analysis. In: Donald H. Sanders (ed.): Nemrud Daği. The Hierothesion of Antiochus I of Commagene. Volume 1: Text. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake IN 1996, ISBN 1-57506-015-9 , p. 390.

[Carsten_Binder-1] Carsten Binder: Plutarch's Vita des Artaxerxes. A historical commentary (= Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies. Supplements to the Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies . New series. Vol. 1). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020269-4 , p. 154 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - Simultaneously: Düsseldorf, Universität, Dissertation, 2007).

[Mary_Boyce-2] Mary Boyce : A history of Zoroastrianism. Volume 2: Under the Achaemenians (= Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East. Volume 8: Religion. Section 1: Religious History of the Ancient Orient. Delivery 2, Booklet 2a). Brill, Leiden et al. 1982, ISBN 90-04-06506-7 , p. 20, limited preview in the Google book search.

[Xenophon-3] Xenophon Anabasis 1, 5, 8

[Josef_Wiesehöfer-4] Josef Wiesehöfer (ed.): The Parthian Empire and its testimonies = The Arsacid Empire: Sources and Documentation (= Historia. Individual writings . H. 122). Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-515-07331-0 , pp. 66 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[5] Donald H. Sanders, JH Young: Sculpture Analysis. In: Donald H. Sanders (ed.): Nemrud Daği. The Hierothesion of Antiochus I of Commagene. Volume 1: Text. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake IN 1996, ISBN 1-57506-015-9 , p. 390.