Late Roman Attic helmets

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Getting back to the 'attic' type helmet... Just to further confuse the idea of a limited chronology for these things, here's what looks very much like the very same helmet, as it appears on the tombstone of T. Flavius Mikkalus (1st-2nd C AD):

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Compare this to the helmets worn by the attacking troops on the Arch of Constantine...

True depiction, or 'artistic license'...? :errr:

It's a true depiction, the 'Artistic licence' doesn't work for three centuries when the artistic languages changed so much! The pics don't show Pseud Corinthian helmets but a precise kind of helmet almost unchanget till the age of Constantine and the Byzantine Empire, this cannot be a so called 'Artistic convention' lasting from the first century till the VI!

Here my opinion: We have the Attic helmet, we have a lot of them perfectly preserved:

From Campania I century:



Reliefs from the monument to Lusius Storax first half of I century AD, from Teate (Chieti):



From Archeological Museum of Taranto:



From Pompei, the so called Attic Helmet in all its splendour! This is the Helmet we are looking for! Try to draw a laterl view on a surface of this helmet and you'll get 'EXACTLY' the image of the tombstone of Severus Acceptus:



This is my interpretation of a III century leginary with the 'Attic' gladiatorial helmet, we know Marcus Aurelius during the Marcomannic wars recruited slaves (probably galdiators) and also bandits to form two new legins during the terrible years of the great plague :