A Greek Dark Age Centaur Armour

[Dan Howard]

We have:
- Articulated in Dendra.
- Articulated in Thebes.
- Various depictions of partial or full articulated armors in artwork of that era
- Articulated armors appear even in Linear B tablets lists of stocks as pictograms
- Articulated armors used with phasganon swords are depicted even among Sea People - on which we know Mycenaeans were a major part.

The Dendra armour was certainly articulated.

There weren't enough plates from a single armour at Thebes to put together a decent reconstruction.

Most of the artwork of the time is too crude to be any use at all.

No way can the Linear B tablets be used for this kind of analysis. How come there aren't any symbols that look like scale armour? How many times would you have to draw little sketches of scale armour before you start simplifying it? It is an early form of handwriting, not a photo. The best we can say from the Linear B tablets is that they are depicting some kind of armour that's all.

The Sea Peoples illustrations could just as easily be depicting the ribs on a bare chested fighter. That is more likely IMO given the angular nature of the lines. A series of plates shaped like this won't articulate very well and doesn't match any of the plates that have been found so far.