08-11-2004, 05:15 AM
Excuse me if I don't back my assert with bibliography but that needs time and I haven't much of that lately!<br>
That spangenhelm is Germanic, not Roman and all. The worst problem for you, Tom, is that the helmet is sixth century in date (Mmmmh, not too late for Arthurian wars... )<br>
Among the hundreds of Frankish and Alamannic tombs, only a really small handful of them have yielded helmets. Maybe they were too expensive for tha vast majority of warriors or maybe they were a too valuable heirloom as to be disposed of at a burial.<br>
Two helmets from Egypt, one at the Coptic Museum (Cairo) and teh other at the Rijksmuseum (Leiden) seem to be Roman spangenhelme. They've been loosely dated from late thgird century to sixth century but the recent tendency is to put them near the earlier date. They are much less evolved that the helmet on your picture, in any case.<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>
That spangenhelm is Germanic, not Roman and all. The worst problem for you, Tom, is that the helmet is sixth century in date (Mmmmh, not too late for Arthurian wars... )<br>
Among the hundreds of Frankish and Alamannic tombs, only a really small handful of them have yielded helmets. Maybe they were too expensive for tha vast majority of warriors or maybe they were a too valuable heirloom as to be disposed of at a burial.<br>
Two helmets from Egypt, one at the Coptic Museum (Cairo) and teh other at the Rijksmuseum (Leiden) seem to be Roman spangenhelme. They've been loosely dated from late thgird century to sixth century but the recent tendency is to put them near the earlier date. They are much less evolved that the helmet on your picture, in any case.<br>
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Aitor <p></p><i></i>
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