A Greek Bronze Cuirass

Fashioned of hammered sheet, consisting of a breast-plate and back-plate, anatomical form with details in relief, ornamented in raised and incised details, including, on the front, a voluted ketos or sea-dragon curving around the contours of the pectorals, its serrated comb, fins, forked tail and scales finely incised, the lower ribcage off-set and outlined with a raised ridge terminating at each end in incised palmettes, the 'linea alba' marked by a vertical groove also terminating at each end in an incised palmette, a palmette at the top centre at the base of the flaring neck-guard; the back-plate with the curving bars at the shoulder blades each terminating above and below in an incised palmette, the lower rims flaring, the edges of the arm-holes and neck-guard rolled-in, a perforation on the front and back of each shoulder for attachment, the proper right front preserving an original iron pin.