09-28-2009, 11:10 PM
Quote:As I said, it's a bit difficult. The one-piece-attic-helmets all have a protruding "Stirnschirm", therefore are following the seven-piece-model in shape and appearance. The helmet from Pergamon doesn't have a "Stirnschirm"! It doesn't look like the hellenistic helmets, but like a archaic one!
But many one-piece helmets which you take to be Attic do not have crests like the seven piece models, either. Why does a lack of a visor make a helmet non-Attic (when, for instance, the Grushevsky helmet, an Attic by your reckoning, barely has a visor at all), but a lack of a crest doesn't? It's little arbitrary points like this which make classifying Hellenistic helmet types almost futile.
Quote: Hellenistic helmets are surely far more complicated than we can judge from the handful of preserved examples!
You've got that right!
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
