Bell armor
The bell armor ( gr. Thorax ) originated in archaic times in ancient Greece .
description
The bell armor is a bronze breastplate that completely encloses the upper body and upper abdomen. It sits relatively loosely and is bell-shaped at the bottom to allow the wearer more mobility of the upper body.
Originally the bell armor was smooth and only insignificantly adapted to the body contour. At first, bell armors were seamlessly connected, so that they had to be pulled over like a sweater. This made them very stable, but also uncomfortable, as the entire weight of up to ten kilograms rested on the shoulders alone.
Soon two-piece armor were developed, which were connected on the sides with pins and ribbons. The muscle armor developed from this by more closely imitating the body proportions and shortening the abdominal area .
literature
- Stefan Bittner: Costumes and armament of the Persian army at the time of the Achaemenids. Verlag K. Friedrich, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-9800481-6-0 ( Interdisciplinary Science 1), (At the same time: Munich, Univ., Diss., 1985).
- Arnold Hagemann: The Greek Metal Armor , BoD - Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 978-3-95580-403-9 .
- Adam Schwartz: Reinstating the Hoplite. Arms, Armor and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-515-09330-9 , pp. 66, 312 ( Historia individual writings 207).
Web links
- Southern Italian bell armor around 400 BC Chr. (On the private page imperiumromanum.com)
