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Today the armor is being displayed at Nauplion Archaeological museum. The armor should have been constructed around the middle of the 15th century BC (Late Helladic II period) and it is being consisted exclusively by bronze plates, in total 18 pieces of different sizes and shapes (full plate armor).
Mycenaean Armor. Undoubtedly the Late Helladic era (15th -11th century BC), well known as Mycenean period, is characterized as a vivid war-centric society.
17 Νοε 2020 · So-called ‘Figure Eight’ shields are known from the 15th century onwards. This unique design is synonymous with Mycenaean Greek armor and consists of two pieces of curved wood with various supporting elements. The gaps were then filled with wicker before the layers of ox-hide were added.
21 Δεκ 2019 · Macedonia and Thrace were somewhat backward compared to southern Greece in the Classical period, but in the later sixth century they adopted bronze armour in the form of the bell cuirass and the Illyrian and Corinthian helmets, just as these forms were dying out in the south.
Despite the fame of their legendary predecessors, as well as many Far Eastern counterparts, comparatively little is known about European makers of arms and armor. The names of a few fourteenth-century armorers have come down to us, but substantial documentation begins only in the fifteenth century.
Scarce evidence is available from the fifteenth century onward as to how armor was ordered, in what time the order was completed, and how much the parts or entire armor cost. Second, a complete armor could comprise elements made by several specialized armorers.
During the fifteenth century, Italy led the field in metallurgy. According to Dr. Alan Williams metallurgical tests on surviving pieces of fifteenth century Italian armour, the vast majority were made from steel (Williams, The Knight and the Blast Furnace, p. 64). One of the biggest advantages of using steel over iron was in the ability to
