Officer Helmets

[Celtic505]

I am so sorry I didn't see that anybody replied to this so I never responded to your question. I'm sorry. I wasn't ignoring you or anything. Anyways, yeah I can try to find a picture of the fresco for you. There is one picture online I have seen of it but it is of extremely poor quality. The best image I have is in one of my books. I will keep searching though until I find a good quality pic of it and will post it as soon as I find it. BTW I also found another Roma statue depicting the same Apulo-Corinthian helmet as the one shown on Alexander. This time it is depicted on Jupiter/Zeus and I believe is from somewhere around 100 AD. All of the rest of Jupiter's panalopy is identical to that shown on monuments and depictions of Roman tribunes, officers, & even emperors, but rarely is it shown their head gear (barring the Tetrarchs) and it is long assumed they would have worn a helmet in the styleof the Attic Helm so frequently depicted on many Roman monuments but never found in the archeological record, unless you count some of the Cavalry helmets like the Auxilary type A cavalry helm aka the 'Weiler' helm. As much as love the look and design of the attic helmet I still felt that the evidence more closely matches with the Apulo/Italo/Etrusco-Corinthian which we know from the many recovered was actually worn by Roman citizens in the 3rd & 2nd centuries BC. It falls out of favor towards the mid-1st century and is assumed not to be in use by the Imperial period. But with many Romans & even emperors being phil-hellenes I would not doubt them wanting to look more Hellenistic. Plus there is even a staue of Emperor Hadrian with one at his feet. I think that the tradition of wearing this helm continued throughout the imperial period and even evolved to eventually replacing the eye holes and nose gaurd with actual human eyes and nose in 3D relief. I think such examples as the Autun Helmet and the Heddernheim Cavalry type helmet with the prominent Eagle crest are continuations of this style, directly descending from the early Italo-Corinthian types with their characteristic feathered plume holders along with raised horse-hair crest. The evolution of the helmet gradually changed until it resembled an entirely new looking helmet altogether. I am posting a link to the image of the Jupiter statue with the aforementioned helmet below. Thanks

Statue of Jupiter w/ Etrusco Corinthian Helm, 2nd Century AD



Again here is the web address in case the link doesn't work and you need the URL:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/2661375876/