08-31-2005, 12:27 PM
Dan I agree that the most obvious method is to externaly reinforce the cloth with scales.
BUT, is there any evidence to suggest that small "Pylos-type" scales cannot be "sandwiched" between layers of cloth? Has anybody tried it and find it impossible?
Yes pictorial evidence support mostly the "straight" linorthorax or externally reinforced linothorax but according to may archaologists only 10% of art and knowledge about ancient peoples made it to us. So what I speculate might not be unlikely.
An example of "sandwiched" armor was the gambeson of Saladin that he would wear and apear unarmored according to chroniclers. Are we supose to think that he was the first to have such thing?
Kind regards
Stefanos
BUT, is there any evidence to suggest that small "Pylos-type" scales cannot be "sandwiched" between layers of cloth? Has anybody tried it and find it impossible?
Yes pictorial evidence support mostly the "straight" linorthorax or externally reinforced linothorax but according to may archaologists only 10% of art and knowledge about ancient peoples made it to us. So what I speculate might not be unlikely.
An example of "sandwiched" armor was the gambeson of Saladin that he would wear and apear unarmored according to chroniclers. Are we supose to think that he was the first to have such thing?
Kind regards
Stefanos
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Phokean Ekdromos
http://hetairoi.de/
http://hoplomachia.gr
http://stefanosskarmintzos.wordpress.com