Linothorax design/construction

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I think Paul M meant more something like the medieval cloth/leather covered cuirasses, for example like that from the graves from the battle of Visby or from pictural evidence from several churches.

Here you can see reconstructions: http://www.hoashantverk.se/hantverk/hoa ... index.html

Possible, but I cannot yet convince myself to believe it. It would be a very very special form of armour.

Btw the Japanese box armours look quite different compared to Greek armour. And it was not made from large plates but small ones, put together with silk laces.

Edit: just saw the second post from Andrea. Really great stuff, have to look at it with more time than now. But it is not such a great similarity to classical Greek tube-and-yoke cuirasses, or?