Linothorax vs Quilted linen vs spolas

[Dan Howard]

....surprisingly enough, quite a few! Similar leather backed scale is often found in Thracian (Bulgarian tombs)

So if you attach metal plates to some leather it becomes "leather armour"? If that is the case then we can classify the lorica segmentata as leather armour.

and media reports of Macedonian tombs from the correct period refer to the Illyrian helmets, rich gold fittings and 'leather body armour'. Unfortunately, as was remarked in a thread last year, we can't seem to get to the actual archaeological reports themselves, but large numbers of warrior/Hoplite tombs have been excavated in Macedonia and all references to Body Armour that I have seen refer to leather only..... Of course, since the classical Greeks did not go in for this type of burial/inhumation, an actual mainland southern Greek example is all but an impossibility....

And nobody has produced a single photo of this alleged leather armour. How many papers said that the Vergina cuirass had a leather liner? It turned out that it was lined in linen. The Dendra panoply was also described as being lined in leather when it was actually lined in linen with a leather edging.

There is also a surviving example of a linothorax near patras.

Nothing here hasn't been said before. We are wasting our time until someone produces some fresh evidence. A good starting point might be a photo of one of these alleged Macedonian leather armours.