Hi,
I feel that I have to provide some additional info on the Mycaenean armors we presented.
More fotos and interesting conclusions will be presented soon, as we currently deploy the various armors in battle drills and tests. Currently we have built 4 Mycaenean-era armors, we have plans to built a couple more.
Regarding the Dendra armor, we visited the Museum to study closely the original. The one we built is a bit larger - built for a 1.95 person, while the original is built (we believe) for a 1.80 - 1.85 person.
The proportions follow the ones of the original, even the holes on the armor are drilled on exactly the same positions as the original. There is an exception on this, in a case we preferred to omit a few holes on one of the metal skirts that have no clear meaning - we think that the manufacturers of the original were trying a few combinations for the suspension of the metal skirts and additional holes were drilled (a possibility...)
To be clear, our target was not to build an exact copy of the Dendra original, we rather wanted to built a Dendra-type armor (as close to the original proportions as possible) that will fit on our members bodies.
The large polearm is based on an artifact of a Museum in Crete (I think that there is also another is Cyprus), most possibly a naval weapon - Stefanos will write an extensive article on this. Photo of the original in Crete can be found in
http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/weapons2.htm
The helmet presented with our Dendra-type armor is not truly Mycenaean, is based on a Sea Peoples image, we are in the process of building a Mycenaean one (Dan, thank you for the comment)
Battle of the Delta, 1178 BC
Medinet Habu
Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III
Luxor, Egypt
http://www.minoanatlantis.com/pix/Sea_Pe...herden.jpg
Regarding the hybrid armour (plate/scales) we started with the image of an armored archer from a Cyprus artifact
http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/weapons3.htm (look in the middle of the page)
Finally we decided to build a hybrid approach that combines the breast plate of the Dendra armor and the scaled armors of the Hittites. For the scales, we used the dimensions of the ones (Egyptian origin, as they are marked with Pharaoh seal) presented in Aegina Museum.
As Dan correctly (again) indicates, small paldrons were chosen, so the armor can be used from an archer warrior.
I hope these help,
Adonis
