Linothorax

[3][4] By the late 6th century BC, many paintings and sculptures show hoplites and other warriors in the Aegean wearing the linothorax instead of a bronze cuirass.

[7] By the 4th century BC, armour with a similar shape appears in wall paintings in Italy, sealstones in Persia, gold combs in Crimea, and stone carvings in Gaul.

A team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay led by Professor Emeritus Gregory S. Aldrete have catalogued art from Italy and the Aegean which shows this armour.

In recent times, many cultures from India to Scotland to South America made linen armour by quilting many layers of fabric together or stuffing them with loose fibres such as cotton.

[11] His reconstruction inspired many others,[12] including one by Professor Emeritus Gregory S. Aldrete and his student Scott Bartell at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

This project was present at the joint American Philological Association/Archaeological Institute of America Convention held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in January 2009, and published in a book from Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013.

[13] The project received considerable media attention after Aldrete tested his construction by shooting an arrow at Bartell with cameras rolling.

[14][15] But Peter Connolly's reconstruction was based on a misremembered, twice-translated summary of a Byzantine chronicle which did not mention glue, not on an ancient text, artifact, or depiction.