Leather Cuirass

[MeinPanzer]

Ehmm,I see your point,only note that that man is wearing a bell cuirass.The "pteruges" like lines beleath are his tunic's pattern.If you look closer you'll notice the re turning rim of the bell thorax.
Khaire
Giannis.

Right, my mistake; I thought they were pteruges.

PS.But in that Macedonioan company,I assume that the man with cuirass to the left has his "tube and yoke" cuirass painted purple.As you see they had many different shades of all colours but his cuirass' purple is exactly the same shade as the edge of his chlamys and the same as some other men from the same tomb tunics.It seems painted to me and not the original colour of the leather.

The shades of a colour used to paint something shouldn't even really be considered with ancient painting, IMO, since A) we can't judge how thousands of years of fading and wear have affected paint and B) it seems most artists used one general shade of a colour when working on a whole painting (one colour blue, shaded exactly the same be it on a spearhead, a shield, or a tunic, for instance). But beside that, I think that the colour matching that of another textile- a most-likely linen cloak- is more in favour of that cuirass being made of dyed linen than leather. And, once again, I think that flexible cuirasses being painted would be incredibly impractical (much moreso than painting metal or wood or leather stretched flat or dyeing textiles, for instance).