Quote:Tarbicus:17xmgrla Wrote:Looks like another Victorian fake, like the Toledo helmet.
It can be, but the iconographic evidence will attest life.
Vale
You see, that's the problem. The only other helmet to so closely follow such evidence (the Toledo helmet) turned out to be a Victorian fake. Of all of the verified genuine found helmets from throughout the Empire, and remotely contemporary to such monuments, bear no resemblance at all to these styles as seen on Trajan's Column, etc,
except the Adamklissi metopes. The only possible one is the Italic A which has a raised front that follows the so-called Attic style, including the curls at the temples, and a curved neck guard. Significantly, the front raised part (often referred to as the 'visor') is integral and raised, not separate.
What it comes down to is whether you believe the large scale monuments outside of Dacia represent reality and can be used as a reliable 'document'. Personally, I don't, but others do.
However, without a reliable provenance and find details, it seems to me to simply duplicate the circumstances of the Toledo helmet. It would take the above provenance details and a full metallographic/metallurgical analysis to convince me in any way that it's a genuine helmet. Ironically, the same can be said about the Niedermormter Guttman helmet, and that will always have a question mark over its authenticity (unless new evidence has come to light recently?).
It's just too good to be true IMHO.