More glue - bah

[Paullus Scipio]

Scott wrote:

Both Herodotus (2.86.6) and Polybius (6.23.3) mention lamination or a process identical to it; albeit the Herodotus reference does not refer to laminating in the traditional sense it, however, explains a process of layering strips of glued cloth (in this case linen), one on top of the other, in a way to form a protective wrapping.

I'm speechless ! hock: Herodotus description of the wrapping of Egyptian mummies, and Polybius' description of the 'plywood' construction of the Roman scutum is evidence for 'laminated glued body armour' in classical Greece ? I'm not even going to comment.......

Many of the vase paintings from all different time periods, and by different painters, show pteruges of uneven lengths and often having a slanting appearance.

This is a circular argument! You now maintain some (at least) have an uneven 'hemline' for the pteryges, with individual pteryges of differing lengths ? Therefore what you are seeing must be Tube-and-Yoke?

The armored soldiers have pteruges while the unarmored soldiers' tunics are straight on the bottom with what looks to be a cross-hatch pattern -- clearly different.

Oddly, I see some of these figures as armoured, but with artistic patterns to fill the 'empty spaces' ( or perhaps decoration on the depicted armour). Like I said, the depiction is so abstract, one can "see" whatever one wants, therefore worthless as evidence of anything.....

Scott wrote:

"Against such fixity of belief, one can make little progress..."

With this, at least, I can heartily agree !! D lol: :lol: