10-29-2011, 01:39 PM
The helmet Caesar posted comes from Pletena, mun. Satovča, district Blagoevgrad in Bulgaria. It is on display in Sofia, Museum of National History Inv.-nr. 37325.
It is made of bronze with applications of silver and copper.
Inside the helmet have been found traces of a felt cap.
It has ancient repairs, the lower ends of the cheekpieces have been cut away.
The height is (without cheekpieces) 27,5 cm, total 41,5 cm. Diameter is 24 cm.
It is dated to the first half of the 4th Century BC.
For the type it belongs to the group of Phrygian/Chalcidian helmets because the lower part of the helmet bears strong similarities to the Chalkidian type (ridges in the calotte, eye and ear cutouts, noseguard) whereas the "true" phrygian helmets (also called Thracian by some scholars) have a fully modelled krobulos in one or up to three parts and a brimmed front.
The helmet is published in:
Fol, V.: Le loup en Thrace Hyperboréene, in: I Congreso de Mitología mediterránea. La Razón del Mito. Terrassa 1, 2 y 3 de Julio de 1998. Universidad nacional de educación a distancia, Madrid 2000
Webber, Ch.: The Thracians, Men-at-Arms 360, Oxford 2001, fig. p. 11
Dimitrova, D.: Krieger und Bewaffnung, in: Die Thraker. Das goldene Reich des Orpheus, Ausstellungskatalog Bonn 2004, 127ff. Abb. 5; 294f. Kat.-Nr. 253 Abb.
Greets
It is made of bronze with applications of silver and copper.
Inside the helmet have been found traces of a felt cap.
It has ancient repairs, the lower ends of the cheekpieces have been cut away.
The height is (without cheekpieces) 27,5 cm, total 41,5 cm. Diameter is 24 cm.
It is dated to the first half of the 4th Century BC.
For the type it belongs to the group of Phrygian/Chalcidian helmets because the lower part of the helmet bears strong similarities to the Chalkidian type (ridges in the calotte, eye and ear cutouts, noseguard) whereas the "true" phrygian helmets (also called Thracian by some scholars) have a fully modelled krobulos in one or up to three parts and a brimmed front.
The helmet is published in:
Fol, V.: Le loup en Thrace Hyperboréene, in: I Congreso de Mitología mediterránea. La Razón del Mito. Terrassa 1, 2 y 3 de Julio de 1998. Universidad nacional de educación a distancia, Madrid 2000
Webber, Ch.: The Thracians, Men-at-Arms 360, Oxford 2001, fig. p. 11
Dimitrova, D.: Krieger und Bewaffnung, in: Die Thraker. Das goldene Reich des Orpheus, Ausstellungskatalog Bonn 2004, 127ff. Abb. 5; 294f. Kat.-Nr. 253 Abb.
Greets
Andreas Gagelmann
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
