Linothorax design/construction

[PMBardunias]

If such a composite construction was used, where is the evidence?

Good question. They may all be in collections labelled as frying pans since no one would know what to look for. Although you would think that such pieces would survive in quantity, perhaps not. As I understand it we don't have much in the way of bronze "furniture" that must have been on even the cloth or leather linothorax. Something a useful as a flattened metal plate may have simply been put to other uses.