05-18-2006, 07:34 AM
Great photos. This is the scetch I made of the reconstruction offered in the Museum. One of the eyes and one of the temples were actually well preserved so that the reconstruction is pretty certain.
The helmets and other finds were actually published in Carnuntum-Jahrbuch 2005 (proceedings of ROMEC 14) so anybody who was present at ROMEC 14 may have additional information. They were found in a ditch of a temporary fortification, not the later fort, so dating appears fairly certain. Note, however, that in the same Carnuntum-Jahrbuch, the fame of being the place of the battle at Gelduba is also claimed for Asciburgium.
For what it is worth, I also include scetches of the Ain Gimidi and Wiesbaden helmets for comparison. I have photos of those in books but no decent scanning equipment. Maybe somebody has taken photos of them also.
The Wiesbaden helmet strikes me as particularly interesting in its mixture of "Gallic" (embossed brows) and italic (applied lunulae) styles.
Oops - it seems I can only add one attachment a time so I will do this in three installments.
The helmets and other finds were actually published in Carnuntum-Jahrbuch 2005 (proceedings of ROMEC 14) so anybody who was present at ROMEC 14 may have additional information. They were found in a ditch of a temporary fortification, not the later fort, so dating appears fairly certain. Note, however, that in the same Carnuntum-Jahrbuch, the fame of being the place of the battle at Gelduba is also claimed for Asciburgium.
For what it is worth, I also include scetches of the Ain Gimidi and Wiesbaden helmets for comparison. I have photos of those in books but no decent scanning equipment. Maybe somebody has taken photos of them also.
The Wiesbaden helmet strikes me as particularly interesting in its mixture of "Gallic" (embossed brows) and italic (applied lunulae) styles.
Oops - it seems I can only add one attachment a time so I will do this in three installments.
Regards,
Jens Horstkotte
Munich, Germany
Jens Horstkotte
Munich, Germany
