Officer Helmets

[Kai]

I've made some rechereche work on Roman high rank officer helmet and posted them on facebook, but I do not know if that social network is allowed to link in here?

Considering the ludicrous copyright on FB, you are probably even better of presenting your ideas here anyway. I for one would like to read them very much!



As for the question of value of a helmet... I was surprised when I read in the CTh that fabrica in Antioch was to produce 14 helmets per month, of which 8 had to be plated with gold and silver. Certainly the Roman army did not have an officer corps making up 60% of the whole manpower :mrgreen:

Roman society was highly stratified in every way, but I doubt military helmets were important markers of a whatsoever status. Other symbols did that, imo.