Linothorax design/construction

[Duncan Head]

The only reason this might be important is that if true it might indicate that he is referring to an armor that is bag-like. An armor that slips over the head and hangs from the shoulders as opposed to the essentially two-piece tube and yoke, which I do not believe would be singled out for hanging from the shoulders since it seems to be able to be worn with the shoulders flapped up, even if only long enough to secure it.

To me the fact that the spolas "hung from the shoulders" and the author felt necessary to stress this point meant that it probably was not tube and yoke

Curious - because to me it suggests the opposite! Tube-and-yoke does seem to hang from the shoulders, as opposed to being supported by a waistbelt or, errr, anything else. Even though some (not all?) such corselets do taper in at the waist, they don't seem to do so enough to be supported at the waist or hips.

as opposed to the essentially two-piece tube and yoke

And Jarva makes an interesting case for certain structural features of the tube-and-yoke suggesting that it was (or that some such corselets were) essentially one-piece, cut originally from a single piece of hide....