Reading the Iliad atm and it frequently mentions characters stripping the dead of their armour after killing them.

Was this an actual practice? I get that it is a story and the battle is jumping through time (aeneas being near-fatally wounded then fully healed a few lines later) but Homer phrases it like they were stripped immediately after being killed.

I appologise if this is the wrong sub to ask, just wanted to know if this was a real practise.