Leather Cuirass

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

I have two questions to Giannis:

1. Could you give me informations about one of your posted pictures, with the four Makedonian warriors? I'm very interested because i.a. it shows warriors with boots and bare feet both together. Where is it from and what time is it - late 4th or 3rd century?


2. You mentioned cotton as a much used material, more than linen. That is totally new to me. I thought we don't know much about the use of cotton in classical and hellenistic Hellas, it was known and used but much less than linen (and wool of course).

From the practical aspekt, if I could wear linen or cotton I would surely choose linen, it has only advantages. Could you give some hints to the evidence for cotton as a normal material? Perhaps I would make a chiton from it, till now I used only linen and wool.

Btw: what is the natural colour of undyed cotton? White? That could explain white chitons, other than bleached linen. Normally undyed/unbleached linen is of light grey or grey-brown colour.

1.You'll find this pic and many more interesting ones here:
http://people.clemson.edu/~elizab/Maced ... Athanasios

2.Well...the truth is that I don't remember the exact post I wrote this but is I did say that cotton was used(and even more than linen!) then it's sure I meant wool :oops: !!! I don't know of any cotton objects,only heard of cotton decoration in that Egyptian linothorax.Just to answer your question,yes cotton is originally white and vastly cultivated in my area.

PS.You have an old PM from me.