09-14-2010, 08:34 AM
The Boston-helmet looks Roman to me, because the shape of the lower border is very similar to the Crosby Garrett-helmet - I wonder if it would really could have been worn without a face mask as shown in D. Nicolle's "Rome's Enemies 5 - The Desert Frontier" pl. D 2.
At the lower rear can be seen some curly locks which could have been repeated in the mask's decoration.
The "rose of life" is depicted on the helmet, which is also depicted on the helmet crests of the equites on the Great Traianic friese. Is this symbol also known in other cultures? I'm not shure about this.
This is of course speculative but the Crosby Garrett helmet gives us at least an idea how the masks of the Boston and Vechten helmets could have looked like.
It was mentioned in the previous posts that the helmet looks Bulgarian/of Balcan origin and it is interesting to note that of the six known helmets of the Silistra-Type (to which the mask would belong [in Junkelmann's typology, part of Robinson's CSB]) two are from Bulgaria (Chatalka-CSB12 and Silistra-CSB06), two said to be from Bulgaria (Ex-Guttmann AG 449 and AG 813 [CSB08]), one from Serbia (Smederovo-CSB25) and one from the Netherlands (Roomburgh-CSB07).
So it cannot be ruled out that the Crosby Garrett helmet perhaps was manufactured in Eastern Europe.
At least we now know how different the back parts of the Silistra masks could have been.
Greets,
Andreas Gagelmann
At the lower rear can be seen some curly locks which could have been repeated in the mask's decoration.
The "rose of life" is depicted on the helmet, which is also depicted on the helmet crests of the equites on the Great Traianic friese. Is this symbol also known in other cultures? I'm not shure about this.
This is of course speculative but the Crosby Garrett helmet gives us at least an idea how the masks of the Boston and Vechten helmets could have looked like.
It was mentioned in the previous posts that the helmet looks Bulgarian/of Balcan origin and it is interesting to note that of the six known helmets of the Silistra-Type (to which the mask would belong [in Junkelmann's typology, part of Robinson's CSB]) two are from Bulgaria (Chatalka-CSB12 and Silistra-CSB06), two said to be from Bulgaria (Ex-Guttmann AG 449 and AG 813 [CSB08]), one from Serbia (Smederovo-CSB25) and one from the Netherlands (Roomburgh-CSB07).
So it cannot be ruled out that the Crosby Garrett helmet perhaps was manufactured in Eastern Europe.
At least we now know how different the back parts of the Silistra masks could have been.
Greets,
Andreas Gagelmann
Andreas Gagelmann
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
