muscle armour; bronze; cast; chased; folded; riveted; bronze; Total: Height: 54 cm; Width: 38 cm; Weight: 3.79 kg; armor (warfare/military); weapons (warfare/military); upper body (torso); chest; back; Late Classicism (Greek antiquity); The very well preserved bronze armor comes from a richly decorated warrior's grave near Grotticelle; not far from Canosa in southern Italy. Among the other finds are an iron helmet with Celtic ornaments and coral inlays; now in the Museum of Pre- and Early History in Berlin; and Apulian red figure vases by the Darius painter; now in Leipzig; New York and Boston. The armour consists of a chest and a back shell. At the sides it rests on the iliac crests and is pulled down in front like a skirt to protect the abdomen. The chest and back muscles are plastically represented; nipples and areola are made of darker metal. The edges are folded over an iron reinforcing wire. Six riveted tubular hinges hold the two halves together; two on each side and one on the shoulder. Only one of the iron pins is preserved. Each hinge has two small rings attached to the sides; each of which is fastened by rivets together with a plastically worked palmette. The rings were probably used to attach a small chain for the iron pins.