六个装甲秤 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	六个装甲秤
品名（英）	Six Armor Scales
入馆年号	1998年，1998.366.1–.6
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1500 - 公元 1800
创作地区	挖掘于: 美国, 新墨西哥州（Excavated in: United States, New Mexico）
分类	混杂的（Miscellaneous）
尺寸	each scale: 1 x 1 5/8 英寸 (2.5 x 4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这六个鳞片来自16世纪和17世纪西班牙在新墨西哥州探索并后来殖民的一个地区，大约有300到400人。最初，鳞片会像木瓦一样以重叠的模式铆接在皮革或纺织夹克的外面（一些铆钉头下面残留着纤维痕迹，显然是羊毛）。它们之所以重要，是因为在其他方面几乎没有证据表明在新大陆使用了鳞片盔甲。到美国西南部被殖民的时候，鳞甲在欧洲基本上已经过时了鳞甲是一种非常古老的防御形式，中东现存的碎片可以追溯到公元前1700年左右。在欧洲，从罗马时期到中世纪末，都使用了各种鳞甲。规模的全身盔甲在公元十四世纪中期后就不再流行了，但直到十七世纪，一些规模的盔甲仍在某些情况下制造和穿着。这个例子可能来源于鳞片，当它被带到新墨西哥州时，可能是在16世纪末或17世纪初的西班牙探险中，或者可能是在18世纪末的贸易货物中，它可能已经过时了好几代人。
介绍（英）	These six scales come from a group of approximately three to four hundred recovered from a region of New Mexico that the Spanish explored and later colonized during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally the scales would have been riveted in an overlapping pattern, like shingles, to the outside of a leather or textile jacket (traces of fiber, apparently wool, remain under some of the rivet heads). They are important because there is otherwise very little evidence for the use of scale armor in the New World. Scale armor was largely obsolete in Europe by the time of the colonization of the American Southwest. Scale armor is an extremely ancient form of defense, with surviving fragments from the Middle East dating as early as about 1700 B.C. In Europe variations of scale armor were used from the Roman period through the end of the Middle Ages. Full-torso armor of scale went out of fashion after the mid-fourteenth century A.D., but some scale armor continued to be made and worn in certain circumstances as late as the seventeenth century. The coat of scales from which this example may have come was probably outdated by several generations when it was brought to New Mexico, possibly on a Spanish expedition of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, or perhaps as trade goods as late as the eighteenth century.