A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 98
ed in Greece from the beginning of the fifthcentury B.C. An Etruscan statuette in the Bronze Room showsevery detail of the type (fig. 81). It was made of leather plated withbronze, with shoulder-straps to buckle down upon the breast. Inscenes of the arming of soldiers, for instance on a vase by the… … Fig. 83.—Bronze Plating from Cuirasses (Nos. 214, 213). 3:5. or round scales. Two fragments of such plating are exhibited (No.213, fig- 83, right). The larger consists of six plates of bronze withthe lower edge scalloped, sewn with wire on a leathern coat, andoverlapping in such a way as everywhere…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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