08-08-2012, 11:47 PM
Quote:21 of the bronze ones are from the fifth century. As I only have access to the Google-Books-preview-version, I do not know how much of the 21 cuirass remains consist of the scales and leather or only of the scales. Within the few pages you can read on Google Books Chernenko mentions bronze scales attached to leather a few times. But as I do not have the original book, I am not able to date these examples (one is from Makeevka, Kurgan 396 and one is from Volkovcy, Kurgan 2. An besides that, Chernenko mentions scales (without specifying the material) sewn to leather very often.
I own the book, so if there is any specific information you would like me to look up, I can do so and post it.
Quote:But regarding the Greek T&Y-cuirass, I think, that leather ALSO (I do not preclude the unglued linen theory, by the way) was used. And i base my opinion on the book mentioned in my other post.
I think the conclusion to be drawn from the endless T&Y debates is that the main material these cuirasses were made out of was leather, but that linen was used by Greeks as well, though probably less often.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
