Composition on Warfare
medium cavalry
The prokoursatores were a medium cavalry arm whose job was to harass small groups of the enemy and pursue fugitives. They could be equipped in a simple klivanion like the horse archer, or they could wear mail as here.(PM II.3) Their standard armament was a mace, sword and round shield.
The saddle is, of course, modern, but less different from a Roman one than from a European type of that time. The high European war saddle did not begin to be adopted in Romania until the twelfth century.