Can anyone shed any light on this arm armour?

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Barrett

I found this picture but I cant read greek.

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/war/ArmorC.jpg

Bronze arm guards were known in the Greek Archaic era, basically 7th to 6th century BC. We can see them in artwork such as vase paintings, and a few have survived. Interestingly, with the archeological finds, the *lower* arm guards are extremely rare while the upper guards are more common. I don't know if the pictoral evidence follows that ratio or not. These are all for the right arm, of course, since the left is behind the shield. Note that the figure in the illustration is wearing thigh guards as well.

All of these accessories have pretty much disappeared by the Persian Wars, c. 490 BC. After that, it's just cuirass, helmet, and greaves.

Probably the article in the magazine will give you much better details! Not sure I've read that one.

Matthew

Matthew--
Do you have any links or pictures of these ancient depictions or armored arms, or any pictures of surviving ones? Presumably you are not talking about what might be called pauldrons--I take it you're referring to the sort-of bronze versions of upper and lower cannons/rerebraces and vambraces?

A guy on this page has similar armor, maybe you can contact them to see if they know?

http://hetairoi.de/en/about-us/impressions/

More info I found on the same website.

http://hetairoi.de/en/history/military/archaic-promachos/

I also found some unique foot armor while browsing.

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/0...f70c79.jpg

Ah, nice topic, I've been wondering about ancient Greek limb armor, but haven't gotten around to doing research on it.

Mr Rainey, thank you for your posts- although you may want to consider against multi-posting, and Edit in additions instead.
Anyways gain thank you for your links, I found them very interesting. :)