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Interesting helmet? - ROMan - 09-19-2014

Does anyone have an opinion about this guy's helmet? Would it be correct to label him a murmillo?


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Interesting helmet? - john m roberts - 09-19-2014

Definitely a murmillo - big shield, straight sword, single, short greave. He's wearing one of the late, exaggerated helms that comes down to the shoulders and has a strange, high crest. I would like to see a profile picture of it. Gladiator helmets got more and more bizarre as time went on.


Interesting helmet? - S. Marcer - 09-20-2014

john m roberts wrote:
Definitely a murmillo - big shield, straight sword, single, short greave.

I agree with john m roberts, is almost certainly a Murmillo
Concerning the helmet, the terracotta seems to represent - a little exaggerating - a helmet like the one housed at the Neues Museum in Berlin (dated 2nd century AD).

Best
S.M.


Interesting helmet? - Olaf - 09-20-2014

I agree with the previous posters completely.
The Berlin helmet would put it in the 2nd to 3rd century.
I think the high ridge is supposed to show a feather crest or plumes at the side.
Anyway nice figurine that I had not seen before.


Interesting helmet? - Bernard Howard - 01-23-2015

Looks like the helmet usually used by ancient warriors such as gladiator if I am not wrong.