Linothorax design/construction

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Ok,no writers says "the greek linen thorax" or "greek linothorax" or "the greek thorakes were made from linen" but they say thorakes linoi in a context that could be used both for greek or foreigh cuirasses. At least in one occasion Xenophon in the anabasis says that the common linen thorax has pteryges,while those he describes is the same but has ropes! What more clear that the linen thorakes had pteryges. And it implies that the common linen thorakes that the greeks knew of had pteryges,because nowhere does he describe what a linen thorax would look like. This is not new info.I have mentioned it before in this thread but it is being ignored. In fact what he is saying is "...these thorakes were like the linen ones but instead of pteryges they had tuisted ropes (from a plant I cannot translate)" The translation is not the exact one(I do not have the text in front of me now) but it is clear the Greeks who read the text aught to know how were the pteryges of a linen thorax. I have never received a comment in this fact neither from the "linophiles" nor from the "leatherophiles" or the neutral.
Khairete
Giannis