08-31-2007, 06:27 AM
AFIK no actual examples of Attic helmets have been found. The closest thing to one is a brow-band, illustrated in Russell-Robinson's "The Armour of Imperial Rome" that might be from an Attic type or equally some other type !!
However they are prolifically shown on sculpture from, say, 80 A.D.- 120 A.D. of Praetorians etc in Rome, and provide the types commonly shown on Trajan's column which has led to the conjecture that Guards in Rome might have worn them.
Until one turns up ( and I don't mean the Toledo helmet :wink:
lol: )
I think, on balance of probability, that you would have to conclude that they were not used.
However they are prolifically shown on sculpture from, say, 80 A.D.- 120 A.D. of Praetorians etc in Rome, and provide the types commonly shown on Trajan's column which has led to the conjecture that Guards in Rome might have worn them.
Until one turns up ( and I don't mean the Toledo helmet :wink:
lol: )I think, on balance of probability, that you would have to conclude that they were not used.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
