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Copper plate lamellae forged in the shape of arrows overlapping each other and fastened with long circular bent bronze pins with sharp points. Remnants of leather backing on the inside are held by the same pins. There are two rows of flat, wavy, bronze scales in the lower part of the armour plate. Also, several shoulder, belt and leg fragments.

h. 30 cm x w. 47 cm and h. 30 cm x w. 41 cm

4th century BC

Bronze

Provenance

Ex German private collection
Hermann Historica Sale, Munich, May 4th & 5th 2007, lot 3397
Hermann Historica Sale, Munich, 11th April 2008, lot 22
Acquired at Ian T Roper, October 2008

Publications

Renate Rolle, Michael Muller-Wille und Kurt Schietzel in zusammenarbeit mit Petr P. Tolocko und Vjaceslav Ju. Murzin, Gold der Steppe Archaologie der Ukraine, Schleswig, 1991, p. 138, fig. 4
Hermann Historica, Auction 52, Munich, May 4 and 5, 2007, pp. 376 and 377, lot 3397
Hermann Historica, Auction 54, Munich, 11th April 2008, lot 22
M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 193, fig. 29

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Scythian Greek Scale Armour

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