08-08-2006, 01:27 AM
OK...
About 6 to 8 weeks ago Comerus posted pics of two (probably) Cretan helmets. Both are in the Met and found with a "cash of amour" including several "mitra" abdominal plates. (Comerus's post was under the 6th century Greek kranoi in Louvre topic.)
Obsessions being what they are, I have sent a request for a quote to have one made. This is in addition to the Argos bell and greaves.
I know of an illustration of a Cretan helmet with a brow plate embossed as Sphinx wings from a book from about 1975. I have a reference to an unpublished "Cretan helmet" found in the southern Peloponnese supposedly associated with the first Messenian War.
Can those of you who have anything relating to Crete, the above mentioned cash of amour, and above all any images of helmets, decoration, shield devices, etc. to add to this? I know most people are interested in the Persian and Peloponesian War and later. But I know good and well "the regulars" on here know a whole lot, and should be ashamed of them selves for not sharing with a poor middle aged man who's wife is going to kill him when she finds out about the panoply I am having made.
LYKAON
(Ralph Izard)
About 6 to 8 weeks ago Comerus posted pics of two (probably) Cretan helmets. Both are in the Met and found with a "cash of amour" including several "mitra" abdominal plates. (Comerus's post was under the 6th century Greek kranoi in Louvre topic.)
Obsessions being what they are, I have sent a request for a quote to have one made. This is in addition to the Argos bell and greaves.
I know of an illustration of a Cretan helmet with a brow plate embossed as Sphinx wings from a book from about 1975. I have a reference to an unpublished "Cretan helmet" found in the southern Peloponnese supposedly associated with the first Messenian War.
Can those of you who have anything relating to Crete, the above mentioned cash of amour, and above all any images of helmets, decoration, shield devices, etc. to add to this? I know most people are interested in the Persian and Peloponesian War and later. But I know good and well "the regulars" on here know a whole lot, and should be ashamed of them selves for not sharing with a poor middle aged man who's wife is going to kill him when she finds out about the panoply I am having made.
LYKAON
(Ralph Izard)
