10-01-2009, 11:54 PM
Quote:That helmet you posted Byron reminds me of one drawn by the Niobid painter.
That's a very interesting helmet Byron, and a very nice representation of another.
While we're on the topic of unusual helmet types, maybe someone can comment on this one:
http://www.antiquemilitaryhistory.com/i ... elmet1.JPG
http://www.antiquemilitaryhistory.com/i ... elmet2.JPG
http://www.antiquemilitaryhistory.com/i ... elmet3.JPG
From Kaitsa in Phthiotis and dating to the 5th c. BC. The inscription reads "POPILOS THESSALON." It's definitely unlike any other Greek helmet I've seen before, but the frontlet is oddly reminiscent of later Attic types.
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