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Peltast Impression
#16
Pilos helmet with cheek pieces appears on a 2nd century B.C. macedoninan coin that has gorgonio in one side and the helmet on the other.
Source: Treso Numismatique at de Glyptotheque Paris 1858 Didiere & Cie on page 29. It is referenced as AE Mionett, No 564.

Personally though I lean on the late Hellenistic or even roman helemet for Rome's allied contignents but the pilos is not ahistorical as it seems.

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#17
This one is surely not from the time of Sulla, but I like the painting.
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#18
Yes, I like that painting too! There are several good depictions in the Osprey books of scythians!
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
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#19
Caesar said:-
Quote:Yes, I like that painting too! There are several good depictions in the Osprey books of scythians!

.....slight freudian slip there Byron? :wink: The picture shows Greek Hoplite ekdromoi (runners out) pursuing Thracian peltasts....
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