Greek Helmet/ armour database

[MeinPanzer]

My lists (of the c. 1000 pieces) comprising the findspot/whereabout of each helmet (at least the information that it exists/existed somewhere). There are c. 300 Corinthians in existence (mentioned by Pflug in 1988) of which I have no informations at all.

For each helmet there is a "fact file" (in work) which has the following informations:

- Best available Picture
- Catalogue-number
- Type
- Findspot/-date
- Present/former whereabouts
- Material
- Dimensions
- Date
- Remarks (inscriptions etc.)
- Bibliography

Concerning the pictures, I collect what I can but have only some hundred original photos made by me in the museums (of different quality). The rest is from the Internet, scans from books or descriptions found elsewhere (I never planned to make these viewable to the public).
The main purpose of this work is to have an overall view of the existing helmets as a base for future work regarding typology, geographical concentration and to have a useful bibliography.
By the way it is interesting to note how many cotradicting inventory-numbers you can find in the literature :roll:

Greets,

Decebalus/Andreas Gagelmann

You know, even just your bibliographical information, excepting the photographs and images which may be problematic due to copyright, would be extremely useful. Just knowing that X number of Thraco-Attic helmets have been found in a certain region and when they date to and where I can find more information on them would already be amazing.

For my part, I can contribute some of the few dozen helmets I've photographed in the museums I've been to. Unfortunately, since my specialization is the Hellenistic period, I haven't taken too many pictures of earlier Greek helmets, but I have taken some. If I'd heard about this on Friday I would have, for a start, been able to take some pictures of the two Corinthian helmets in the possession of the Staatsmuseum Kassel in Germany, including one with bull horns and ears.