Funzione:
Parte di una panòplia di un guerriero, provvedeva alla protezione dell'area toracica.
Manifattura:
La corazza è stata costruita tramite il taglio di una forma standard da una lamiera di bronzo e lavorata poi a rilievo tramite martellatura (probabilmente utilizzando una matrice). Le incisioni decorative sono a canestrello.
Bibliografia:
Connolly, P., Greece and Rome at War, London, Macdonald, 1981, 105-112.
Connolly, P., "Notes on the development of breastplates in Southern Italy", Italian Iron Age Artefacts in the British Museum: Papers of the Sixth British Museum Classical Colloquium, ed. J. Swaddling, London, British Museum, 1986, 117-118 (typology); see also 117-125.
Kanowski, M. G., The Antiquities Collection, catalogue, Department of Classics and Ancient History, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 1978, 61.
Hill, D. K., "Bronze Working: Sculpture and Other Objects", The Muses at Work: Arts, Crafts, and Professions in Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. C. Roebuck, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, The MIT Press, 1969, 60-95, especially 81-82.
Reich, J., Italy Before Rome, Oxford, Elsevier-Phaidon, 1979, 101-109 ("The Samnites").
Warry, J., Warfare in the Classical World, New York, St. Martin Press, 1980, 102-103.
Comparanda:
Connolly, P., "Notes on the development of breastplates in Southern Italy", Italian Iron Age Artefacts in the British Museum: Papers of the Sixth British Museum Classical Colloquium, ed. J. Swaddling, London, British Museum, 1986, Figs. 5 and 6b.
Comstock, M. and C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan & Roman Bronzes in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society, 1971, No. 585 (more ornate piece, with relief faces decorating the discs).
Connolly, P., Greece and Rome at War, London, Macdonald, 1981, Illustration 1, p. 108, Illustration 1, p. 110.
Warry, J., Warfare in the Classical World, New York, St. Martin Press, 1980, illustration p. 102.