Bronze Petasos

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Nice looking repilca...
Gravefind from Athens dated around 400bc from: Antike Helme RGZM 1988 pg 159-160

And: https://www.academia.edu/5634533/Topogra..._Democracy

Thank you. 

If you look above I have included the information you reference as it is an unusual helmet. If there were not an ancient artifact found in situ I would not believe such a helmet was actually produced. In the cultural context of the time it makes sense as the Greeks were using metal helmets that appeared similar to their non-military hats.

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Joe, I'm very jealous of your petassos helmet! Well done!
The original seems to have perforated edges (confirmed?). Someone had interestingly suggested that it might have had a felt cover on its outsider ao that it looked like an ordinary petasos with a bronze interior. Another possibility is that it had a leather or felt interior. A leather edging in my opinion would disrupt the nice shape of the helmet and add no benefit in such a wide brimmed hat.
Khaire
Giannis

Yes, as usual you are correct and it was a hard decision to leave out the perforated edge from the reproduction. I did not want to wait any longer and the holes can always be added later to match the original. 

I too have heard that this helmet could have been covered with felt to conceal that it was a military helmet and/or the holes were to hold a interior liner of some sort. Both are interesting questions.

I've already started using it!

Here I snuck it into a recent "Roman" presentation at a local school.