Linothorax again

[Jason Hoffman]

Im with Dan, you look at enough pictures, study them in detail and you eventually work out what you are looking at, the more you do it the better you get at it.

My research is coming to an end and I have drawn for myself some very interesting conclusions.

MHO, the linothorax can be traced continuously through greek art for about 500 years, it goes through distinct phases of design and construction, I think leather was only used in late linothorax as a backing for scales, not a protective layer in its own right, The Spolas has no relation to the Linothorax and I feel that its interpretation as a peice of specificly design body armour is erronious. (this is not to say it would not be used as such when it was needed)

I have started fleshing out my thesis / book (it is already out to 20 pages and i have not even started talking about construction, effectivness or history! hopefully it should be ready in about six months. (as long as I can get time between lesson planning, marking, and filling out peices of paper for the education dept).