Glued Linen Armour- a simple test

[rocktupac]

Again, I simply wanted to point out that while many artists will show incredible detail on certain items, such as the interior of a shield, and then leave the surface of armor (of the type IV variety) smooth or without detail such as quilting. And this is true for many artists. If detail is shown on one piece of military equipment (i.e. a shield interior), why not show detail on something else (i.e. the quilting on type IV armor)? If any quilting had actually been visible one would imagine more artists would have drawn it as such.(6.4.2).

So why can't some of these Type IV's be made of leather or hide - perhaps the ones that don't show stitching?

Some of them could, but we have an extremely little amount of evidence which suggests that they might be. Jarva states that the Type IV could be little other than the linen armor the ancient authors refer to ('Archaiologia on Archaic Greek Body Armor' 40).