02-21-2006, 10:37 PM
None of the various leather hardening techniques provide anything that will resist a weapon point unless it is too thick to be flexible. You can't have flexible leather that will resist any sort of threat on the battlefield. So any depiction of a flexible musculata cannot have been intended for combat. Unless you have evidence that a cuirass was sometimes worn over mail like in the Middle Ages. Even using this medieval combination, none of the "cuiries" they wore were flexible.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books