04-02-2019, 01:36 PM
There used to be a thread about this helmet on RAT somewhere, but it seems to have disappeared...
From what I recall - completely unprovenanced, supposedly found in Germany 'some time in the 20th century', looks unlike any other Roman helmet known from archaeology, strongly resembles Victorian ideas of what Roman helmets looked like, and has a weird bowl welded together down the middle.
All things considered, most probably a 19th C fake, but nobody knows for sure.
From what I recall - completely unprovenanced, supposedly found in Germany 'some time in the 20th century', looks unlike any other Roman helmet known from archaeology, strongly resembles Victorian ideas of what Roman helmets looked like, and has a weird bowl welded together down the middle.
All things considered, most probably a 19th C fake, but nobody knows for sure.
Nathan Ross
