Aegean Bronze Age Men’s clothing

What did Aegean Bronze Age men (and boys) wear?

Well..
– they went naked (sometimes while carrying fish),
– they wore zoma (loincloth)(plural: zomata) (sometimes with codpiece) (greek: ζῶμα Linear B spelling is zo-ma (𐀿𐀲).)
– they wore hide skirts (possibly called perizoma)(greek περίζωμα)
– they wore short kilts (possibly also perizoma)
– they wore shorts (though there is a possibility that the shorts are just how it looks when a man is active while wearing a kilt)
– they wore tunics (possibly chiton)(Linear B ki-to (𐀑𐀵) : (Derived as χιτών or chiton)) (a basic, often linen, tunic.) sometimes belted.

It’s worth noting, that aside from the men dressed in long tunics and a single shorter tunic.. and the men wearing hide skirts/cloaks I have not seen any instances of a Minoan man wearing an upper body garment. Add to that, aside from one image on the Hagia Triada Sarcophagus which MAYBE shows a man wearing a long tunic and a wrap skirt/kilt, I have not seen a tunic paired with kilt.

Mycenaeans ARE shown wearing short tunics.. but I have NOT seen any of them wearing kilts.

Minoan naked men

Minoan loincloth

Minoan in loincloth

Minoan with kilt

Minoan possible kilt
Minoan possible front view of kilt
Minoan Kilt
Minoan kilt

Aegean men in shorts

Men in shorts. The dagger is a Mycenaean find, but it is suspected to depict Minoan clothing. It’s possible these are “kilts” not shorts.

Minoan in hide skirt

Minoan hide skirt
Minoan long hide skirt (?) or cloak

Minoan in tunic

Minoan long tunic
Minoan long tunic
Minoan long tunic and (maybe?) long kilt (?)
Minoan shorter tunic

Mycenaean in tunic

Mycenaean short tunic
Mycenaean short tunic with belt and greaves
Mycenaean short tunic and greaves

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