Questions (linothorax, sandals, Spartan moustache)

[hoplite14gr]

If you talking about Lacedaimonians only, in the centuries of their mighty power/glory (5th-4th BC), they worn/had:

a. ONLY "Kodonoschemous" full-Bronze cuirass

What reference we have for ONLY bell-type cuirass?

b. no footwear at all

Read my previous post

d. long-long hair (braid-style and bundled in the top of the head and the edges under the helmet - a nice trick to protect the head from the helmet)

Practival experimets proved it cannot be done. You need arming cup for a helmet. There are examples of arming cups on potery.

g. "one-piece" (without straps) bronze greaves
h. no belts of course

... and their "wooden rings" (in battle) around their necks or elsewhere; these were the Spartan's... "US tag", for identify them if their corpses were in bad shape (they were writting in a piece of wooden ring their names and they broke one piece of it - leaving back in their camp, so the survivors would easily match the pieces...)

What reference we have for wooden rings?
What makes you think that only "one piece" grieves existed ?

Kind regards