Armor of the Divine Triad : lamellar armor

[Dan Howard]

A few points:

1- the earliest identifiable lamellar occurs in the fourteenth century BC in Egypt.

I'd love to see this.

2- Not all lamellar is completely devoid of a backing (see my various publications on middle Byzantine lamellar for example) and not all scale has a backing (e.g. the sample of wire tied "semi-rigid" scale armour from Carnuntum posted in this thread.)

Depends on how you define scale and lamellar. Which definitions do you use?

4- The Mars of Todi armour is lamellar. There are other Etruscan examples.

Or scale. 1) depends on how you define scale and lmallar. 2) you can't tell how something is constructed just by looking at a sculpure.

5- Assyrian reliefs show lamellar of very similar appearance

Or scale, see above.