09-11-2006, 10:58 AM
Danno and dsrob,
sorry for the confusion, :?
but I did not say that the helmet was used by the German tribe of 'Langobarden' (in English 'Lombards') in late antiquity. I just quoted from 'Antike Helme' (Ancient helmets), a highly recommendable exposition catalog about the (former ?) collection Lipperheide.
There the author Marcus Egg says about the piece that it was "found allegedly in a Lombard tomb" - means: found in a tomb that was located in the modern Italian region called the Lombardy. The author consequently puts it side by side with the helmet of Lanuvium and writes that the helmet comes nearest to the type of Negau.
Favi,
after the description the calotte of the helmet is not painted, but only covered with a 'rough blue Azurit-patina'. It is just the pupils of the eyes that are made of blue glass.
Greets - Uwe
sorry for the confusion, :?
but I did not say that the helmet was used by the German tribe of 'Langobarden' (in English 'Lombards') in late antiquity. I just quoted from 'Antike Helme' (Ancient helmets), a highly recommendable exposition catalog about the (former ?) collection Lipperheide.
There the author Marcus Egg says about the piece that it was "found allegedly in a Lombard tomb" - means: found in a tomb that was located in the modern Italian region called the Lombardy. The author consequently puts it side by side with the helmet of Lanuvium and writes that the helmet comes nearest to the type of Negau.
Favi,
after the description the calotte of the helmet is not painted, but only covered with a 'rough blue Azurit-patina'. It is just the pupils of the eyes that are made of blue glass.
Greets - Uwe
Greets - Uwe
