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Attic Helmet found? - Celtic505 - 06-28-2020 Is this finally an actual Roman Attic Helmet? Its likely more of a pseudo Attic type but it certainly has the distinctive separate brow plate. If anyone has any information on this helmet and its background I'd love to know. RE: Attic Helmet found? - jho - 07-20-2020 (06-28-2020, 03:17 AM)Celtic505 Wrote: Is this finally an actual Roman Attic Helmet? Its likely more of a pseudo Attic type but it certainly has the distinctive separate brow plate. If anyone has any information on this helmet and its background I'd love to know.Salve! This is so-called Bassus helmet in the Mougins Museum (a.k.a. Auxiliary Cavalry ACA 10 (Private collection) in the database which was once on this site). The helmet is from a private collection without certain provenance. It was first published in ANTIKE WELT- Zeitschrift für Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte. Band 5/2008 „Die Soldaten Roms“. There are actually a number of recent provenanced finds of this "Pseudo-Attic" type which is believed to be the helmet type depicted on the famous 1st century cavalry tombstones, most importantly: The helmet from an ancient Thracian tumulus (burial mound) known as Pamuk Mogila, Brestovitsa near Plovdiv, Bulgaria: http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2015/05/13/plovdiv-archaeology-museum-shows-for-the-first-time-rare-thracian-helmet-with-trojan-war-motifs-from-bulgarias-brestovitsa/ The helmet from Hallaton near Harborough, Leicester, Southeast Leicestershire, UK, found in a 'ritual space' in South East Leicestershire, in 2000, along with several hoards of silver and gold coins dating from the late 1st century BC to mid 1st century AD: http://www.harboroughmuseum.org.uk/displays/hallaton-treasure/the-helmet/ |