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Bronze Petasos
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Well, it took a while but Matt Lukes has created a very fine example of this rare bronze helmet.

I'm pretty happy they way it turned out and expect the Indians to offer copies soon - so if you want one, just be patient 

More background:
Source:
TOPOGRAPHIC SEMANTICS: The Location of the Athenian Public Cemetery and Its Significance for the Nascent Democracy
Author(s): Nathan T. Arrington
Source: Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 79,
No. 4 (October-December 2010), pp. 499-539
Published by: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Page 530.
"Two more burials near the Leokoriou Roads also deserve mention for
their hippie associations. At Madytou 11 (H 1) near Hippios Kolonos, in
the Late Classical period, a man was buried in a marble cist with an iron
sword on his chest, a bronze petasos helmet at his feet, an iron strigil, and
two alabastra. Helmets of this type are usually worn by cavalry. The grave
also contained several bronze discs and other objects that may have been
ornaments for a horse or rider.171 Athenian Classical burials with armor
are extremely rare; indeed, I know of no other inhumation in the entire
area northwest of Athens that contained weapons or armor, with the
exception of the arrowheads in the Tomb of the Lakedaimonians."

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Bronze Petasos - by Joe Balmos - 10-09-2013, 09:05 PM
Bronze Petasos - by Flavivs Aetivs - 10-09-2013, 10:41 PM
Bronze Petasos - by katsika - 10-10-2013, 07:35 PM
Bronze Petasos - by Joe Balmos - 02-03-2014, 11:14 PM
Bronze Petasos - by Flavivs Aetivs - 02-03-2014, 11:21 PM
Bronze Petasos - by Joe Balmos - 02-04-2014, 01:57 AM
Bronze Petasos - by hoplite14gr - 02-04-2014, 02:41 PM
Bronze Petasos - by Joe Balmos - 02-04-2014, 04:10 PM
Bronze Petasos - by Flavivs Aetivs - 02-04-2014, 04:26 PM
Bronze Petasos - by Alanus - 02-04-2014, 07:26 PM
RE: Bronze Petasos - by Creon01 - 04-05-2017, 01:17 AM
RE: Bronze Petasos - by Giannis K. Hoplite - 05-03-2017, 11:16 PM
RE: Bronze Petasos - by Creon01 - 05-05-2017, 09:13 PM
Bronze Petasos - by Joe Balmos - 03-22-2014, 06:50 PM
RE: Bronze Petasos - by Crispianus - 05-04-2017, 11:30 AM
RE: Bronze Petasos - by Creon01 - 05-04-2017, 02:11 PM
RE: Bronze Petasos - by Crispianus - 05-05-2017, 01:10 PM
Bronze Petasos - by Joe Balmos - 03-22-2014, 07:03 PM
RE: Bronze Petasos - by Ektoras - 03-01-2024, 06:38 PM

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