New Bronze hoplite cavalryman?

[JaM]

I think it is a leather Spolas.  That is not a nipple!  Unless this was Ptolemy's grandmother's armor!  It is a stylized tie-down for the epomide.

What do we think, is that skirt a separate garment? I wonder if they can tell from the statue.

if its leather, why using two leather belts around it? plus, below the lower one, are perforated ornaments. not something you would wanna do to the leather armor i guess..