04-05-2013, 01:07 PM
Thanks Dan for showing me this site. Look at page 273-5, I think you will find it very interesting. This same type of "scales" were found by Layard and others during their excavations. Layard assumes they were scales attached to a supporting cloth or leather backing, but such a backing was (naturally) not there to be found. But it had never been there, the scales were laced to each other.