Pictures of Butzbach cavalry and Wiesbaden Imperial helmet

[jho]

can be found here:

link from old RAT

Feel free to use them for the helmet database. These helmets are currently on exhibition as part of the "generationes" exhibition (on the development of the Roman soldier through the imperial age) at the Saalburg. For more information see this thread:

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The exhibition is small but EXTREMELY well made consisting of large numbers of replicas of military equipment, spectacular life-size photos of reenactors and very nice flat tin figures dioramas. Definitely worth a visit.

The other helmets on show are a copy of one Schaan helmet and an original Hagenau type helmet found in the Rhine near Rüsselsheim (photos in my web album). They also showed a copy of a Niederbieber type helmet and one of the Augsburg-Pfersee helmets (no photos).

It would be great if somebody with better photographing skills could go there and get better photos in particular of the Butzbach helmet. The Butzbach helmet will be published later this year by Bernhard Pinsker in „Kunst in Hessen und am Mittelrhein“ 2009 (forthcoming).

[fwg]

Hi!

Is there any chance to "revive" the link or to get a picture of the Butzbach cavalry helmet?

Many thanks,

Frank.

[S. Marcer]

Hello Frank.
I don't know if it can be useful for you, but I can olny attach the two pictures that appear in Fischer’s book (p. 209) of the cavalry helmet variante Butzbach-Dormagen.
Best
S.M.

[attachment=4187]VarianteButzbach.jpg[/attachment]
(Mougins Mouseum of Classical Art – from T. Fischer 2012)

[jho]

Here is the original link, I hope it works:

generationes

[Albertomv]

Thanks Ligus it looks pretty amazing! :o

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Hello Frank.
I don't know if it can be useful for you, but I can olny attach the two pictures that appear in Fischer’s book (p. 209) of the cavalry helmet variante Butzbach-Dormagen.
Best
S.M.

[attachment=4187]VarianteButzbach.jpg[/attachment]
(Mougins Mouseum of Classical Art – from T. Fischer 2012)

Ligus do you have any more pictures of these helmets?

[S. Marcer]

Gaius Julius Caesar wrote:

Ligus do you have any more pictures of these helmets?

Hello G.J. Caesar,
Besides these two, taken from the T. Fischer’s book “Die Armee der Caesaren: Archäologie und Geschichte” in the cavalry chapter and called:

Typ KavallerieHelm mit glatter Kalotte und geradem Stirndiadem, Variante Butzbach.

Cavalry Helm with smooth dome and straight frontal diadem, Butzbach variant.
(sorry for the translate, my German is really bad).

The helmets are exposed in the Armory Collection of the Musee D'Art Classique De Mougins. The photos in the Fischer’s Book comes from here. The one in the right is described: “Bronze and iron Roman cavalry helmet of the Weiler Guisbororugh type, 1st century AD”; and the left one: “Bronze and iron tinned Roman cavalry helmet decorated with a large eagle and laurel pattern, 1st century AD”.

There is another photo of rear view of the left helmet…where you can glimpse the eagle.

[attachment=4228]rear_2012-06-08.jpg[/attachment]

Very best!
S.M.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Thank you Stefano, I have a few tha tare available from the web, but that angle is new and useful!
I apprecuiate it very much!