Linothorax design/construction

[Sean Manning]

For example,in the battle of Plataia,Herodotos tells us that when Masistios fell,the greeks were hitting him to the body massively but could not kill him,until someone realised he was wearing an iron thorax and hit him in the eye

This is good, I had forgotten about this when I asked about iron armor at this date. So we know that iron armor existed, now how do you think this persians armor was constructed? How would you make armor of iron pre 500BC? Could they make a full cuirasse of it or would they have to cobble together smaller plates?

The fact that the Greeks "realized" he was wearing iron armor suggests that this was not completely alien to them, just unexpected.

The armor was scaled.It was not iron but gold.And If I remember,it was worn under his clothes and thus the Greeks could not see it.
Here is the text in Elglish and Greek. 22 [2]http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hh/hh9020.htm
It was worn under his "phinikis" red chiton.
Khaire
Giannis

The learned Herodotus says gold, but it was almost certainly of gold-covered iron. Several armour scales of iron with thin gold sheets wrapped over them were found in the ruins of Persepolis. Alexander's men were very systematic in their pillaging and burning, but some scraps of arms and armour survived. I'd guess this armour would have had a vest cut, since it was concealed under an outer garment, although from Greek and imperial art we know Persian troops often wore armour with the same cut as Greek soft armour.