10-01-2009, 07:01 PM
Quote:I will contact the Athenian Ephorate and try to publish it in my work! Let down, why? Well, it's the only preserved original of this type I'm aware of, but I know depictions of this type, eg on grave-stelai from Sidon! See attachment!
It would be exciting to see a brand new helmet like that published, and I would also be very curious to hear of the context of the find (and any accompanying grave goods). The only reason I said I was let down is because when you stated that it was unlike any helmet you'd ever seen my imagination ran wild and I thought it could be some bizarre and fantastical hybrid. So I have no reason to be disappointed with the helmet, but only my imagination!
As for the helmet on the Sidon stele, I would have to disagree with you... I think it is related to the Attic/Thraco-Attic type, but it is its own distinct type, since it has A) no frontlet/volutes, B) a very prominent visor, and C) a "boxy" or wide crest. Most of the soldiers on the Sidon stelai wear these, as do some other figures in Ptolemaic art, but I don't think I've seen them being worn by soldiers of other Hellenistic kingdoms. By the way, if you want more photographs of these stelai (that photograph you posted is one from my site which I took when I visited the Istanbul Archaeological Museum), I can supply them to you as well.
Oh, and in case you aren't aware of it, a stele was published in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Archaeology found near the ancient city of Herakleia in Macedonia dated to c. 300 BC which shows a cavalryman wearing a nicely-rendered Attic helmet. I think it is one of the earliest representations of the fully-matured seven-piece Attic helmet, and the only one I can think of which is depicted being worn by a cavalryman.
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
