Linothorax vs Spolas

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

It is the wrong way of thinking in reenacting! You first have to KNOW that a subarmalis existed, and then try to link it with a specific word and form.
You cannot give to a word a meaning that you don't have hard evidence that even existed.
Also, i didn't claim that all that is needed in plate armour is leather stitching on the edges. I said that the padding could have very well been attached to the cuirass itself, as was done to helmets and greaves, and thus did not have a specific name (i.e. spolas).
Interesting to note that the aristocratic hippeis on the Parthenon frieze are wearing muscled cuirasses and tube and yoke armour in about the same frequency, the most of them being unarmoured of course. Muscled cuirasses are much less frequent even in artistic representations.
I think that Sean summed it up well in his previous post. We really-really have very few candidates in iconography for the word spolas, and none of them include a subarmalis.
Khairete
Giannis