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CRITICAL REATIEWS 195 195 garments can be derived either from decorative leather patch work or from leather quilt work. The latter possibility can be considered more acceptable ow-ing to the fact that quilted garments as protection against cold as well as defensive armor (for men and horses alike) are well attested for Central and Eastern Asia.28 The rise of metallurgical techniqlles evidently necessitated the use of metal scales to increase the defensive power of the leather armor. The scale-covered leat.her sa/riam (ef. French cllirasse from cuire the leather upon which the platearmor was attached) reached either as far as the hips or covered the legs to the ankles (cf. note 24). It is possible that the designation of certain sartams in the texts from Nuzi as sa IM (cf. Nuzi 527:5, 7, and 13 and the variant ssl ra-m-ni-su in Lacheman RA XXXVI p. 175, SMN 616:12) refers to the length of the scale armor. IM 8 n i-ramana hence sariam sCG ramcl,ni(su) ;;seale-armor covering the entire body." We have no means to ascertain when and where the change from (quilted) leather armor to scale armor occurred, but it is rather evident that the appearance of the Hurrian warriors with their metal

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Herbert H. Paper

Published

1950

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Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)