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In total, armour weighed a colossal 15 kg (33 lb), meaning serious strength and physical fitness would have certainly been an advantage, if not a necessity, in the Mycenaean.

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If you want to have a product that is outright superior to both bronze and case-hardened iron, you want steel. The Dendra Panoply exhibits full body armour, including a helmet, bronze breastplate, layered kilt, and shoulder guards which would have been secured with leather straps. So it is not really the case that case-hardened iron is superior to bronze, but probably more likely due to the price difference. More often than not, you end up with iron that ends up being hot-short or cold-short due to too-high levels of impurities. However, finding iron with the right level of impurities to where it ends up being useful and not 'detrimental' is actually very rare. Dendra Panoply, Bronze panoply of armor found in Mycenaean warrior’s grave at Dendra, near Mycenae, c. Archaeologists believe this to have been a common form of popular entertainment. Be the first to review Ancient Greek Spartan Armor Cancel reply. While hoplites consistently maintained this advantage over non-hoplites, each phase of the panoply’s development employed a different set of optimized tools, and by investigating the changes in the hoplite’s needs, the shifting nature of hoplite warfare may be better contextualized and understood. 1, 2-bronze greaves (1-fragment of felt from inside of greaves) 3, 4-fragments of body. The adoption of bronze armor depended on the region, from the avoidance of armor in Egypt to the creation of bronze panoply armor in Greece, which featured helmets and flexible armor made of.

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Lyrical, free form Minoan art depicts an acrobatic dance performed with a live bull. Weight: 2.4 kg: Dimensions: 10 × 10 × 38 cm: Materials: Bronze. Download scientific diagram Elements of panoply from grave 3.

On the other hand, you can also end up with blooms where depending on the impurities within, you could end up with wrought iron bars with a durability and hardness equivalent to medium-carbon steels (Iron with a phosphorous content of around 0.05% for example has been shown to provide steel-like blooms). Bronze Age Aegean: 'Bull Leaping' fresco from Minoan palace at Knossos, c. You can end up with bronze that can be as durable and hard as Medium-carbon steel, though this depends on many variables such as the level of work-hardening, and this hardness likely only occurs on the edges of blades (Due to the much higher level of hammering that occurs on the blade edge compared to other areas of the sword).

Case/face-hardened iron could be superior to bronze, but not always.