linothorax and other white cuirases

[ValentinianVictrix]

Xavi, I think you have totally missed the point about those photographs I took. They are the clearest evidence you can have that the cuirasse is made from metal of some description. Look at the pains the sculptor's have taken to show the rigidity of the cuirasse, the way the bottom belly lip protudes forwards when the wearer is slighly bent back, showing the cuirasse itself to be totally inflexible.

I'm not sure why your making such a fuss about the sleeves either, from what I can see the wearer of the armour is wearing a long sleeved tunic or undergarment over which he is wearing a thoracomachus or subarmalis and then the cuirasse. Pretty standard stuff.