Armor of the Divine Triad : lamellar armor

[Dan Howard]

Here is the official webpage for the Divine Triad:

http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/divine-triad

Lamellar armor may have been around since Assyrian times.
If so, it was already ancient by the 1st century.

The Assyrians used scale armour, not lamellar. The earliest lamellar I've been able to find from anywhere is in China during the Warring States period. There were twelve suits of lacquered leather lamellar found in a tomb at Suixan, Hubei, just north of ancient Chu. See Armour in China before the Tang, by Albert E. Dien. JEAA, 2, 3-4, (Leiden: Brill, 2000). pp.23-59

The Divine Triad armour looks very similar to the Mars of Todi armour which is most likely a scale construction. The scales are laced into horizontal rows on thin strips of leather and then the rows are attached to a backing of cloth, leather, or felt.