09-09-2016, 02:48 AM
(09-09-2016, 02:32 AM)Paullus Scipio Wrote: This is not comparing ‘like with like’ for the comparison is supposed to be the raw material, and an untanned ox-hide cost 3-500 d. Whilst Jarva reckoned on two corselets per hide, Aldrete et all use ‘special pleading’ again to reduce this to one corselet per hide.
I would be a giant of polyphemian proportions in ancient Greece at 6'3" and close to 300 lbs amd my TY was cut from one side of leather with quite a lot to spare. Giannis can vouche for the hernia inducing weight of the thing- about 16 lbs. I could have made two Giannis sizedT-Ys from what I had. On this note, because of the thickness and stiffness of the leather it really needs to be in a form like the T-Y, it cannot be used to make a simpler garment as more supple leather could.
