![]() Easy to remove leather straps connect the front and back parts of the cuirass, adding flexibility and security in emergency situation (remove the cuirass). The leather straps suspension allow the cuirass to adopt instantly to the body movements as permit the plates to shrink or expand on the vertical axis, but also allow the plates to micro-move on the horizontal axis and absorb the kinetic energy of incoming hits. It weight 14kg including the small bronze pauldrons and linen padding, but the shape and flexibility make it is comfortable for a trained person to carry it for more that 6 hours a day (cumulative) or 2 hours continuously. The main body of the consist of 12 plates attached together using an internal suspension system that is based on leather straps, plus 2 optional bronze pauldrons. ![]() ![]() Key characteristic of this cuirass is the flexibility and all round protection it offer to the Warrior body. Detailed images of the cuirass and helmet from the site of the armourer. The cuirass was first presented at «Journées Gallo-Romaines St-Romain-en-Gal 2012» (Vienne, France), is part of an Association thesis submitted at Pultusk Academy in 2012, also presented at Experimental Archaeology Symposium 2014 (Viminacium Museum, Serbia). The plate armour designed and build by the Association armourer, is a very flexible piece of equipment. Sea People Warrior fighting on ship deck. Combination of plate armour, wooden shield and Epsilon axe. If this was a weapon of the era, was clearly designed to puncture through heavy armour or grab/tear apart opponent plate armour, just like the West European horseman picks. What is interesting is that Kanellopoulos Museum in Athens exhibits an interesting artifact dated in the 9 th century bc: a heavy hammer with long-horned ending, similar to modern axini. Some advise from linguistic experts is needed to clarify the meaning of axini in Ancient Greek eras. But we may assume that improvised agricultural tools were use as weapons by poorer Warriors, this is a safe guess. ![]() It was used to attack Menelaus, who survived the attack and killed the Trojan Warrior (Iliad 13.613), so there is a clear distinction between war clubs / axes and axini. It is a fact also that are not concrete archaeological findings, documentation and written evidence regarding aksini usage and shape, this has lead to a confusion with battle axe. The word axini is used even today in modern Greek language to describe an agricultural tool (pickaxe). īut Homer makes a distinct reference to an unusual weapon, the aksini. The shape of the axe reminds double warthog teeth, thus we refer to it as warthog axe. Usage of battle axes (both one-handed and two-handed) is a necessity for the period Warriors as effective plate and scale armour had been developed and used (i.e. Dendra Plate Armour, Thebes-Arsenal armour, Hittite scale armour, etc) – similar weapons are used to defeat 15 th century West European medieval knights armour, as well as used by /against Byzantine Catafracts and sailors. Mycenaeans and Minoans also have used decorated single bladed axes, as documented by archaeological findings from Crete to North Europe. Another interesting axe design comes from Hittites, as depicted on the inner side of the King’s gate at Hattusa. Minoan axes were typically double blade axes, while there are strong arguments that those axes were ceremonial/votive or associated with female ritual figures. Mycenaeans were using types of crescent axes, piercing axes but also the so called epsilon axe, which is a probably an evolution of the Egyptian duck-bill axe.
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