Republican impression?

[Marcus Mummius]

Salvete,

Soon I will have an Italian muscled cuirrass and an Apulo-Corinthian helmet at my disposal.

Could these two pieces be combined to form the basis of a republican impression? For what period and kind of soldier would these two pieces be suitable?

Valete,

[Dan Diffendale]

What sort of muscled cuirass are we talking here? Long? Short?

Most of the extant examples of Apulo-Corinthian helmets with provenance come from northern Apulia and northeast Lucania. Unfortunately, a large percentage of known helmets were looted, and therefore have no findspot -- but are presumably from the same area, based on associated items. They date generally between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.

There are 52 Apulo-Corinthian helmets with known or supposed provenience; of those 52, only 4 do not come from South Italy: one from Friuli in northern Italy (B12), one from Slovenia (B13), one supposedly from Athens (B14), and one supposedly from Vulci in Etruria (E3).

You can have a look at the list of Apulo-Corinthians with findspots here (and cry at the number without provenience):
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dpd/italica/apcor/apcor.html

There are a few complete panoplies with Apulo-Corinthian helmets on my page here:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dpd/italica/a ... plies.html

You're of course free to base a later (post 4th century) Roman (non-South Italic) use of the helmet type on sculptural and pictorial representations.