etruscan lamellar armour

[Duncan Head]

Barron could be more useful, but I haven't still read it copletely. But he too seems to add nothing definitive on how these type of plates were laced.

She, judging by the name "Amy" :-)

It seems that the plates of each horizontal row are sewn togheter with a leather or textile hemming at the top hedge, with diagonal lacing visible. The top hedge of the row in some cases seems to overlap the upper row.
But how were the horizontal rows connected each other?
No lateral connection seems to be.

The BM reconstruction illustrated on p.178 does show the rows laced together, with no indication of any attachment to a backing; but it doesn't even seem to use all the holes in the scales, which can't be a good sign. Starr (1937)'s suggestion mentioned in the text doesn't involve attachment to a backing either. On the other hand the leather cuirass from Tutankhamun's tomb was scale with a linen backing, and Barron thinks that the lacing pattern on that one resembled Assyrian styles.

Which is why we don't know whether it is scale armour or lamellar. It is not clear whether the rows are attached to a backing, or solely to each other.

Nor whether these NE examples had anything to do with the Etruscan style.