Legionaries helmet in Gladiator movie

[X1WOW]

            Hello, I have seeing recently a roman relief where the legionaries are crearly using this type of helmet, and I recogniced instantly that those are exactly the ones used in the movie Gladiator. Since the day I watched the movie, i have always though those were just your typical Hollywood fiction looking roman helmets, but this relief crearly says otherwise. Did this type of helmet really exist? Do they have a name? The look a more advanced version of the coolus helmet, but I have never seen any in any museum or in the internet.

[Robert Vermaat]

Actually no and no. The relief you refer to is also known as Trajan's Column and has been discussed for decades. Facit - the helmets (and other pieces of equipment depicted there) are often simplified and standardised for the benefit of the viewer in Rome, and not 100% accurate for the benefit of posterity.

As to the helmets in Gladiator, they do not even resemble the helmets on Trajan's Column - the extras were told to pull the front guard down to make it look like a jockey-cap..

For a good overview for these helmets look here:
http://www.imperium-romana.org/roman-helmets.html

[Condottiero Magno]

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