Leather Cuirass

[MeinPanzer]

Ruben,
I take your point but both linen and leather can be dyed before construction.

Can leather be dyed a convincing white using ancient methods?

Without a good closer look into those white cuirasses, we need to be careful interpreting them as a linothorax.

Some dont have shoulder flaps & while ago we have a discussion if those images were spolas something selse.

Which ones don't have shoulder flaps? On some, we don't have a clear view of the chest, so we simply can't tell.

For example Stefanos & Paul A. agree that were a bronze cuirass of this type Here, I couldn't find the originals example, but the two circuled ring at the ribs on this image Here suggest like for a leather strap & its geometric design, plus the absen of shoulder flaps, it suggest that is a bronze cuirass?

Here the other example in negative, but I notice an animal head on his chest, suggesting a piece from the shoulder flaps, like the linothorax , or its a repossed head?

The case was this kind of breastplate(Bell/Cuirass) with unusual pteriges,
but I guess this is like a Bell one with pteriges


Two more example in white: (A Bell or Bronze Age cuirass?), with pretiges & no arm flaps.

PS: I couldn't see the high neck shape that cover your throath either , exept one image with no geometrical design above.

And, unsurprisingly, not a single one of these (save for the one of the man holding a cuirass in one hand, which does look truly bizarre with those swirls) gives us a clear view of the chest. We simply can't say if these have shoulder yokes or not, so they aren't worth debating.