Glued Linen Armour- a simple test

[rocktupac]

So? Cloth armour has been used for thousands of years and I can think of two passages from any culture that actually describes its method of manufacture. One is in Arabic and the other is in French. It is hardly unusual for a passage to neglect to tell the reader how a type of armour is made.

I only wanted to make it clear that there is no evidence from the ancient Greek or Roman literary sources that state that the linen armor referenced in a number of examples was either laminated (as has been often pointed out) OR quilted.

It is no argument at all unless you can demonstrate that all the illustrations were done by the same artist. Every artist has his own way of illustrating things. Some might choose to show the stitching, others may not.

Again, I simply wanted to point out that while many artists will show incredible detail on certain items, such as the interior of a shield, and then leave the surface of armor (of the type IV variety) smooth or without detail such as quilting. And this is true for many artists. If detail is shown on one piece of military equipment (i.e. a shield interior), why not show detail on something else (i.e. the quilting on type IV armor)? If any quilting had actually been visible one would imagine more artists would have drawn it as such.

....two Dozen references in the literature? Could you list these please?.......

Yes please.

The references:
Alcaeus (2.19); Cassius Dio (78.7.1-2); 'Chronicle of Lindos' (29, lines 36-39); Cornelius Nepos 'Iphicrates' (1.3-4); Herodotus (2.182; 3.47; possibly 1.135); Homer 'Iliad' (2.529; 2.830); Livy (4.20.1-7; 9.40.3); Pausanias (1.8; 1.21.9; 6.19.7); Pliny 'Natural History' (19.2); Plutarch 'Alexander' (32); Silius Italicus 'Punica' (4.223; 9.586-598); Strabo 'Geography' (3.3.6; 13.1.10); Suetonius (19.1); Xenophon 'Anabasis' (4.7.16; 7.63); Xenophon 'Cyropaedia' (6.4.2).

OK, only 23 individual references and not "two dozen" as I stated earlier, but close enough (24 if you include the reference from Herodotus (1.135) that the linen armor originated in Egypt).

Our work has not been published yet. We hope to have this done very soon, though. In January we will be presenting once again at the annual meeting of the APA/AIA in Anaheim, CA (January 6-9).