Olympia museum helmet

[Giannis K. Hoplite]

Apealing to another thread,this means that any 1st century historians would not have seen the 5th century bc linothoraxes in Olympia...

[Paullus Scipio]

Apealing to another thread,this means that any 1st century historians would not have seen the 5th century bc linothoraxes in Olympia...

...now, now Giannis - let's not turn every thread into this discussion ! :roll: If there were hundreds/thousands of helmets deposited, there should have been the same in body armour ( whether linen or leather), and one would have expected something to survive - scales, for example, fragments of leather/linen,(after all, if Stefanos is right, a textile fragment survived from Mycenean times in Thebes), the metal fittings that the shoulder pieces tied down to........
It does suggest a new line of enquiry, however. Someone should try to track down the original reports by the excavators which will be in German, I think.......