04-04-2019, 11:34 AM
Since it appears to be unprovenanced it could be a fake an altered original or even a genuine helmet intended for a statue rather then a real live person...
Nathan Ross wrote:
"and has a weird bowl welded together down the middle."
What makes you think that? certainly it not possible to tell from the photo, it looks like patinated bronze in the pic and if this is the case I would suggest its a heavily altered/restored Negauer helm using a lot of wishfull thinking and probably referencing roman art like Trajans Column, the detail decoration on the front piece is also reminicent of an earlier time perhaps early iron age and may not be part of the original... theres been several helmets that follow the same theme and all appear to be old/unprovenanced "finds"..
Helmets of the Negau type vary quite a lot from a low dome to conical and many feature the ridge up the front ( back) :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ...au_helmets
Just my 2cents not written in stone...
Nathan Ross wrote:
"and has a weird bowl welded together down the middle."
What makes you think that? certainly it not possible to tell from the photo, it looks like patinated bronze in the pic and if this is the case I would suggest its a heavily altered/restored Negauer helm using a lot of wishfull thinking and probably referencing roman art like Trajans Column, the detail decoration on the front piece is also reminicent of an earlier time perhaps early iron age and may not be part of the original... theres been several helmets that follow the same theme and all appear to be old/unprovenanced "finds"..
Helmets of the Negau type vary quite a lot from a low dome to conical and many feature the ridge up the front ( back) :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ...au_helmets
Just my 2cents not written in stone...
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
