12-08-2007, 01:39 PM
Mike, I seem to remember there are a few painted helmets in Antike Helme. I'll take a browse later.
My question is, how much material was scrubbed by the Victorians, like medieval armour was? Is anything lost in restoration? I still wouldn't be surprised if those Gallic eyebrows sometimes had eyes painted beneath them. We have one definite Gallic with eyes raised from the bowl, and there's the Krefeld Italic D. More helmets have eye decoration of one type or another, and I haven't even mentioned other cultures' yet that were also sometimes painted. But with the Romans I'd never be able to say "they were painted".
My question is, how much material was scrubbed by the Victorians, like medieval armour was? Is anything lost in restoration? I still wouldn't be surprised if those Gallic eyebrows sometimes had eyes painted beneath them. We have one definite Gallic with eyes raised from the bowl, and there's the Krefeld Italic D. More helmets have eye decoration of one type or another, and I haven't even mentioned other cultures' yet that were also sometimes painted. But with the Romans I'd never be able to say "they were painted".
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