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[PROMETHEUS]

Time to decide and may it be definitive .....

Sacred band phalanx ----cuirass or linen?

Sacred band cavalry ----cuirass or linen?

[Steppe Merc]

My vote is cuirass for infantry, linen for cavalry. But that's just me, and I'm no expert.

[Aymar de Bois Mauri]

My vote is cuirass for infantry, linen for cavalry. But that's just me, and I'm no expert.

I agree. No leather or linen shoulder pads on the metal cuirass, please...

[Urnamma]

My vote is cuirass for infantry, linen for cavalry. But that's just me, and I'm no expert.

I am an expert.

Here's the info. The Phoenician word for iron is BR-Z-L. The text states 'three (or thirteen, probably this number, because of the number of swords) thousand iron breastplates were there. Sixteen talents of silver were there. Four talents of gold were there. Fifteen thousand (curved) swords were there [probably falcata]. Fifteen talets of silk were there [probably very, very fine linen, since the word for silk was used. This much silk is really hard to come by, so it's probably excellent quality garment linen, probably for use in garment making. This sort of linen is unsuitable for armoring] Three statues of our most holy goddess were there, made of gold and electrum [a mixture of gold and silver].'

So, I'd say they would have had iron breastplates and falcatas for secondary weapons. We know that they used the Xyston (Kontos) as well, making a shield unusable on horseback.

Well, here's the problem. The cavalry didn't wear linen! They wore an iron cuirass, as did the infantry. Iron cuirass for both. There's your definative answer. Iron cuirass stays, if we want history.

Remember guys, Carthage was rich, and these were the flower of her army. They were heavily armored, to say the least.