The corslet has many epithets, expressing the elaborateness of its decoration, such as _ποικίλος, παναίολος, πολυδαίδαλος_; and no such words apply to the plain metal plates of corslets in archaic Greek art of the eighth to early sixth centuries, as shown in art. At most they were etched with designs of men and women, as in the example from Olympia, or have two volutes. The corslet was made of _γύαλα_ whatever they may have precisely been, for sometimes the epithets applied to the Homeric corslet do not suit plate but mailed armour. [Illustration: Fig. 4.--CRETAN SEAL-IMPRESSION, MINOAN ARMOUR From the _Annual of the British School at Athens, No. XII_. (_Macmillan_ & _Co. Ltd_.)] Reichel argued from the absence of corslet, belt, greaves, and mailed kirtle in the few pieces of Aegean art known to him, that no such armour was used by Aegeans, and, again, that no such armour was known to the Achaeans. He was unacquainted with the scores of seal impressions which have been found at Haghia Triada in Crete.[24] The seals, it has been said, show a man in what Dr. Halbherr recognises as a heavy decorated _plate_ corslet, with an obviously metallic belt, and below it a mailed kilt or apron, the Homeric _mitrê_. Dr. Mackenzie, too, recognises the armour.[25], It is unmistakable, and the corslet is so very wide, considering the wasp-like Mycenaean waist, that a spear could penetrate the side of it without wounding the wearer, a great puzzle of the critics when the fact occurs in Homer. (See fig. 4 A). The armour is out of drawing, the man's head is given in profile, his armour is given full face. The same error is made by the painter of Menelaus fighting Hector on an archaic dish from Camirus. Euphorbus is lying on his back, but his corslet is given in full face, while his head is in profile (fig. 5). This is common in archaic Greek art. The arms of the man on the seal are not shown, just as the arms of women on some Laconian figurines are omitted.[26] There also occurs on the vase of Haghia Triada, a jovial figure in a very loose thick piece of armour, as some hold,[27] or "a Minoan cope," as others maintain. Beneath it is a short jutting ribbed kirtle, as in the seal. I am unable to decide between cope and cuirass in this instance,[28] but the bosses appear to be of hard material. An easy mode of comparing various costumes and pieces of armour as illustrated in archaic and early Greek art, is to glance at Engelmann and Anderson's _Pictorial Atlas of Iliad and Odyssey_, 1895. It is prior to the Cretan discoveries, but is useful to students remote from collections of Greek works of art.