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Brows of pseudo corinthian origin?
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Henk wrote:
Quote:Both coins are from a later date than 300 BC, in which according to your earlier post the use of helmets of this type stopped ......... and there are many more of these coins found.
..Coins with Roma wearing an Apulo-Corinthian helmet are among the earliest Roman coins (269 BC), around the time the Lucanian and Apulian tomb record ceases. Roma also appears in an Attic type helmet. By 170 BC, both Attic and Apulo-Corinthian types have acquired the little wings which are a distinctive South Italian ( not Hellenistic ) feature. Coins with clear Apulo-Corinthians, with and without wings are continuous through the Punic Wars - Scipio Africanus is portrayed on a coin wearing one, and on down to the Principate when Imperial portraits take over.The God Mars is also frequently shown on coins in one.
Unsurprisingly, they appear regularly on South Italian coins all through the 3 rd century ( after the tomb sequence ends), as do other helmet types.

All of which - the regular appearance in iconography and on coins, the spread of these helmets throughout Italy and beyond to Sicily and the Balkans, makes it hard to argue that they simply 'disappeared' overnight around 300 BC when the Apulian/Lucanian tombs cease.
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Brows of pseudo corinthian origin? - by Uhrisa - 11-08-2009, 07:46 PM
Re: Brows of pseudo corinthian origin? - by Paullus Scipio - 11-28-2009, 05:31 AM

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