Thickness of a bronze bell cuirass

[Matthew Amt]

From the rather extensive paper by Jarva (1995) which explores all known archaic greek body armour known at that time it highlights that most archaic armour thickness was around 1mm (although there are numerable variations). According to Courbin (1957) and discsussed in Jarva's paper, the Argos cuirass is around 2mm, but many others are less than half of that.

OOO! OOO! Great stuff. Citations, pleasepleaseplease?? Hopefully it's just my memory going, again, but I don't remember hearing about the paper by Jarva. I certainly haven't SEEN it!

The 'Argos' bell is 3.36kg (again, from Courbin '57)

Ha, under 7-1/2 pounds. Great stuff, again. It DOES seem odd that it can average 2mm but still come out that light, unless it's really tiny. Glad to see that there is more evidence behind what I've been saying than I had thought, though!

Thanks,

Matthew