linothorax and other white cuirases

[Youngster]

Hi Thomas
It is a possibility, but you will agree that building a stiff ending on a chaimail, will lose the advantadges of a chainmail flexibility making it unconfortable to wear. In the other hand we do not have any reference of this kind of cuirasses.

Nobody is saying that the hamata was actually muscled, but only that it was cut in the manner of musculata, e.g, with a curved bottom edge, but also sometimes still retaining the shoulder doubling.