12-26-2005, 06:48 AM
Quote: I think someone covered this ground earlier on this thread. Apparently, the armour was LESS resistant to penetration when glued together. I was also under the impression that scales/plates were NOT typically fitted to linothorakes, except on the right hand side. Scale or plate reinforcement is certainly not apparent in much of the art. Given Stefanos' recent experiment and others reported elsewhere on the forum, I can see why they wouldn't have bothered.
As far as art goes, at best it allows that various kinds of scale (or similar reinforcements) existed. Even a broad and comprehensive survey of art would still be relatively useless as evidence for usage rates, since the sample is fundamentally flawed; and even if it was not we are looking at what artists chose to represent not what was necessarily most common or typical.
Could you give me a pointer to “Stefanosâ€ÂÂ
Paul Klos
\'One day when I fly with my hands -
up down the sky,
like a bird\'
\'One day when I fly with my hands -
up down the sky,
like a bird\'
