08-26-2016, 03:36 PM
(08-26-2016, 07:59 AM)Lysimachos Wrote:(08-25-2016, 05:40 PM)Paul Bardunias Wrote: I think that armor is an attempt to render a textile or leather item in metal- like the pilos and boeotian helms. I have long wondered though if there were iron plates secreted coat of plates style in some of these. I even found a possible candidate, a riveted fragment that looked just like the chest of a coat of plates from a Bactrian dig. I posted it on here years ago, not sure I could find it now.
Is this the riveted fragment you were thinking of?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4299868?seq...b_contents
Thanks! That's it. Sure there is not enough to be sure its armor, and even if it is, it is more likely to be an external plate, just a riveted bronze cuirasse. But it is what I would expect plates beneath a textile coat to look like, so it warrants consideration. As with so many things we dig up, if an interpretation like this is not even on the radar, it will never be described.
Many parts of Greece are rich in iron- Sparta so rich they used it for money. There should be more iron armor in my opinion. It could have all been scales, though I know of no iron scale hoards from Greece. But if it were some sort of thorax plate or plates, what are the chances that an archaeologist would recognize it as such if found alone?
