05-01-2007, 11:51 AM
For my part, I'm not seeing this statue as evidence either for or against leather cuirasses. What I have said about it is concerned solely with its failure to depict the armour accurately. The form-hugging armholes don't match up with the projecting abdominal edge. Even if we assume this to be an artistic convention, a contradiction has been built into the piece and that's what I said at out-set.