鳞甲 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	鳞甲
品名（英）	Scale Armor
入馆年号	2000年，2000.66a–c
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 799 - 公元前 200
创作地区	原产国: （Country of Origin: ）
分类	人类的盔甲（Armor for Man）
尺寸	高 27 3/4 英寸 (70.5 厘米); 宽 at shoulders 15 3/4 英寸 (40 厘米)
介绍（中）	这种非凡的盔甲不仅是古代保存最完好的鳞片盔甲，而且也是从如此早期幸存下来的少数完全由皮革制成的盔甲之一。它包括一件由五十六排硬鳞片制成的无袖服装，这些鳞片由生皮鞋带固定在柔软的皮革衬里上。盔甲从肩膀一直延伸到大腿上部，腰部有一条宽带。它包裹着躯干，并在右侧重叠。在胸部侧面和背部的小部分发现了皮革鞋带，用来系紧盔甲。一条由几层柔软皮革组成的辅助裙（照片中看不到）被缝合在盔甲底部边缘的内衬上。这条裙子会一直穿到穿着者膝盖以下。裙部的位置和范围是在正在进行的装甲保护处理过程中才被发现的历史上，通常由青铜或铁制成的鳞片盔甲是寿命最长、使用最广泛的保护形式之一。大约在公元前两千年中期，它首次出现在埃及和近东，直到公元十七世纪才在欧洲继续佩戴。根据博物馆的风格和结构，这件盔甲似乎很可能是由欧亚大陆的游牧文化之一制造的，他们在公元前六世纪至二世纪统治着大草原。
介绍（英）	Not only is this extraordinary armor the best-preserved scale armor from antiquity, but it is also one of only a few examples entirely of leather that survive from such an early period. It consists of a sleeveless garment made of fifty-six rows of hard scales, which are secured by rawhide laces to a soft leather lining. The armor reaches from the shoulders to the upper thighs, with a wide band at the waist. It wraps around the torso and overlaps on the right side. Leather laces, by which the armor would have been tied closed, are found at the side of the chest and at the small of the back. A subsidiary skirt, consisting of several layers of soft leather (not visible in the photograph), is stitched to the interior lining at the bottom edge of the armor. This skirt would have reached to just below the wearer's knees. The positioning and extent of the skirt were only revealed during the conservation treatment of the armor, which is ongoing. Historically scale armor, usually of bronze or iron, was among the most long-lived and widely used forms of protection. It first appeared in Egypt and the Near East about the middle of the second millennium B.C. and continued to be worn in Europe as late as the seventeenth century A.D. Based on the style and construction of the Museum's example, it seems most likely that the armor was made by one of the nomadic cultures of Eurasia, who dominated the steppes from the sixth to the second century B.C.