Late Roman Attic helmets

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I agree with Evan, this helmet was perhaps much better known during the happy years of the Pax Romana than the regular military helmet, and certainly more sensational. The same with Heliodorus' so-called Persian cataphract helmet, it is a rather precise description of the Gesichtshelme/Cavalry Sports type C worn by cavalry units on parades, festivals and games, and as such were probably better known to Heliodorus and his public, and certainly more sensational, than their more functional regular combat helmets.

I do not understand why this thread is called Attic helmet. What is so Attic about these helmets? As John Roberts says, the Mikalus helmet is a Beoetiean helmet, and the Pompei mural helmets are almost all pseudo-Corynthian helmets.