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Minoan Armor - joeandmich - 08-05-2011
Did Minoan armor differ from hoplite armor?
Thanks
Re: Minoan Armor - Dan Howard - 08-05-2011
The Minoans did not wear armour. The earliest body armour of any kind dates to the 16th century. Hoplites date almost a thousand years later than this. The earliest armour found in the Aegean is Mycenaean, not Minoan. Mycenaeans wore bronze plate and bronze scale armour. The Dendra panoply is one example.
Re: Minoan Armor - richard robinson - 08-27-2011
Dan, don't the famous untranslated dics have pictographs of what could possibly be interpreded as armour- and are they not remarkably similar to the dendra panoply and egyptian depictions of sea people armours and perhaps even the scaled Egyptian panoply(ies?) found.
Or am I confusing Mycenean and Minoan again?
regards
Richard
Re: Minoan Armor - Dan Howard - 08-27-2011
The Phaistos disc has been dated anywhere from the 19th century to the first half of the 14th century. If it is of a later date then it is more likely to be representing Mycenaean culture rather than Minoan. Do you have a pic of the symbol you are thinking of?
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Phaistos_Disc
This has a list of all 45 symbols on the disc and I can't see any symbols for armour. The only one that looks close has been interpreted as an animal hide.