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Linothorax vs Quilted linen vs spolas
John C. wrote"
Quote:Leather from areas using alum in tanning was used to make shields in Egypt.
.....that's interesting, John. Christian/Kineas has pointed out that Athens had a major alum-tawing/leather industry c. 500 BC, and that white shoes made from this were common ( I'm curious as to his source for this).

Earlier writers ( pre-Connolly ) used to opine that the Greek Tube-and-Yoke was 'leather' without specifying the type, with an outside chance that it was 'linen' ( e.g. Snodgrass 1960's; J.K. Anderson 1970; J Cassin-Scott 1977;D. Head 1982)

AFIK, Paul B. was the first to suggest Alum-tawed leather as the material for the spolas/Tube-and-Yoke corselet. Smile D
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Re: Linothorax vs Quilted linen vs spolas - by Paullus Scipio - 04-08-2009, 11:35 PM

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