Muscled thorax fastenings

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Hmm,you want early 4th century,right?
in a previous message in this thread I said

Personally I believe that the short,rounded pteryges shown in early statues are leather.Not necessarilly all the undergarment,as possibly the pteryges were attached to the cuirass.The later preryges are considerably longer,thinner and each pteryga overlaps the next one.This way you make thicker covering of the thighs and with les gaps.These also appear to have been much softer and were probably linen. That a thorax could have pteryges of different materials is justified by Xenophon in the "Horsemanship" It is worth to be noticed that he's not mentioning any ypothorakio,but only the pteryges!
It is strange that even the linothorakes in the middle 4th century had overlapping pteryges.

And some characteristic pteryges of greek cuirasses
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118 ... hens3a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118 ... hens2a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118 ... hens1a.jpg
http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o118 ... battle.jpg

Note that they are simple and short. I would mak them leather. Or if not,then like the linothorax pteryges. The longer,thinner ones,and also the shoulder guards are characteristic of later,Hellenistic armour.
Also,the fiiting like those you plan to put on the pteryges are even later than Hellenistic. We usually see them in Roman statues.
Khaire
Giannis