Linothorax vs Quilted linen vs spolas

[PMBardunias]

The plates are depicted with small dots and people have been interpreting them as rivets for years. We know know that they are small patches of lacing. On top of that people thought that the plates were made of metal but 12 examples were later found at Leigudun. When assembled they look exactly like the terracotta examples. IIRC all 12 of them are made of lacquered leather, not metal.

Laced or riveted, the point is that something inflexible, metal, laquered leather, is being attached in some manner to a flexible base material or shell(That assumes that this interpretation of panels is correct, which it may well not be).

You know of that 2002 dissertation on Scale armors that showed no loss in protection when bronze scales were mixed with rawhide, I saw you refer to it on another forum when I was trying to find a copy. Do you have access to it?

On top of that, if the illustration is supposed to be representing segmented plate they would not be aligned vertically, it removes any flexibility at the waist. They would be horizontally aligned.

Perhaps not, the T-Y largely follows the form of the old style bronze cuirasse which obviously was inflexible. The T-Y is high enough on the waist to allow bending in the middle without flexible panels. Even if these panels were stiffened textile, they would retard bending if too long.