Mitra, bronze, chased, bronze, Total: Height: cm; Width: 22 cm, protective clothing, armor (warfare/military), weapons (warfare/military), rituals and ceremonies, votive offerings, burial objects, early archaic, antiquity, The mitre is a bow-shaped protective plate for the abdomen, whose convex forged rounding corresponds to the shape of the human abdomen. Miters seem to be a Cretan peculiarity. Suspended from rings, they were probably attached to a belt worn under the protruding edge of the bell armour.

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