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the bell cuirass around 480 BCweighing about 25 pounds.The cuirasses were cast in two pieces, the front and the back, then hammered. Examples from the 5th century BC have been found in the tombs of Thracians, whose cavalrymen wore them. The earliest surviving depiction in Greek sculpture seems to be an example on a sculptural warrior's torso found on the Acropolis of Athens and

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