Another new Graham Sumner book?

[Gorgon]

Yes, I think the illustration represents leather. I'll have to check the photos (thanks for the link by the way, although the site is slow as hell) better to check the evidence and I also need to read the reasoning behind that interpretation in the book. As for the shorts, I don't think it's padding as you can clearly see the pteruges overlaping each other in the tombstone the way pteriges are supposed to, so I'm convinced those are shorts with pteruges (or "pteruged" shorts) in the tombstone and I agree with the authors interpretation.