Three-disk plate armor, type Alfedana

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Three-disk plate armor, type Alfedana
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Information
Weapon type: Protective weapon
Designations: Three-pass plate armor type Alfedana, Samnite Threefoil Armor
Use: armor
Creation time: around 400 BC Chr.
Region of origin /
author: 		Italy
Distribution: Italy
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The Three slices platebody type Alfedana (also Samnite Dreischeibenhaus Armor ) is an armor of ancient Italy.

description

The three-pane plate armor type Alfedana consists of sheet bronze and is in two parts . The breast, and the back plate are made of a sheet driven and adapted to the structure of the body. There are three round discs on the front and the back. The top two plates are tapered on both parts to provide space for the chest muscles. The lower discs are rather flat. On the front part, just below the neckline, bulges for the clavicle bones are driven out. There are holes all around the edge that are used to attach the lining. Remnants of fastenings that were used to attach straps to the body were found on the shoulders and sides.

literature

  • Magdalene Mercenary : Corpus vasorum antiquorum. Bonn, Akademisches Kunstmuseum, Volume 3. (= Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Germany Vol. 59) Verlag C. H. Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 9783406343902 , p. 94.
  • Harald Prickler (Red.): The knights. Burgenland State Exhibition 1990, Burg Güssing, May 4 - October 28, 1990 (= Burgenland Research Special Volume 8). Publishing office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, Landesarchiv-Landesbibliothek, Eisenstadt 1990, p. 137.
  • Gerhard Tomedi: Italian armor plates and armor disks. (= Prehistoric bronze finds. Vol. 3) Verlag Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 9783515074384 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Born: Restoration of antique bronze weapons. (= Axel Guttmann Collection, Vol. 2) Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1993, Figs. 34–35.