Linothorax design/construction

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Paul B,if the gold fittings identified as linothorax parts found in Vergina,were indeed from a linothorax(either linen or leather) then there were no bronze plates in there.Or do you think by then the linothorax would have been plain linen?
As for armour resistance,it's obvious that the greeks did not consider their armor totally invincible.For example,in the battle of Plataia,Herodotos tells us that when Masistios fell,the greeks were hitting him to the body massively but could not kill him,until someone realised he was wearing an iron thorax and hit him in the eye.This shows that the Greeks were not used to non piercing thoraxes.If at that time iron was as strong as bronze,then we can assume their common thorakes(in art of that time this is the linothorax) were not as resistant.
Pausanias talkes about greek linen thorakes that can be pierced by iron.So what?
Khairete
Giannis