01-28-2009, 09:13 PM
Quote:As far as the "Apulo-Corinthian" goes: I don´t want to spoil anything, but the youngest examples from archaeological context seem to date to the 1st half of the 4th century BCE...
....except of course for the 'Autun' helmet - almost certainly a senior officer's helmet and dating from the first century A.D......and then there's a pillar carved with trophies of arms in the perigueux museum which includes a similar 'Apulo-Corinthian, early first century A.D.......not to mention the Domitius Ahenobarbus relief showing a senior Officer, or the God Mars, wearing one along with Hellenistic-style Officer's cuirass, complete with Officer's sash fastened with 'knot of Hercules' and dating from the late 1st Century B.C. ..... paintings from Pompeii showing such helmets ( late 1st C B.C. /early 1st C A.D). and that's just four examples off the top of my head, there's probably more !!!!! :oops: :oops:
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
