09-27-2009, 06:08 PM
Quote:As for the Marvinci-helmet, I've found this site:
http://faq.macedonia.org/travel/cities/gevgelija.html
Thanks for posting this! I remember coming across this site years ago and noting it, but forgetting the site itself. Anyway, the find itself sounds extremely interesting, especially since it includes a new iron cuirass from the late fourth century, which is a very big find. Something that big must be a high priority for publication in FYROM archaeological publications. However, the most recent publications of finds from Marvinci are from 1997, and this find seems more recent than that. If it would be published anywhere, I would imagine that it would be in recent issues of Macedoniae Acta Archaeologica.
Quote:I've seen the Shumen-piloid in a photo-album by another forum-member, I think it was "gladiator", a native Bulgarian.
Oh, right. Gladiator posts a lot of very interesting stuff, but I think that's because he has access to lots of unpublished material from Bulgarian museums. He's posted pictures and info on a lot of very valuable mail finds as well.
Quote:The Pergamon-helmet is a bit difficult. Although hellenistic, it doesn't represent the hellenistic model (seven-pieced). It looks like archaic depictions of attic helmets. The neckguard isn't separated from the calotte and the volute is modeled only by the upper line of the frontlet, not from the whole frontlet.
But don't you agree that it has the characteristics of imitating an Attic helmet, much like many of the one piece helmets from the Black Sea littoral?
Quote:The Madrid-helmet is only reportedly from Athens. I suppose it was acquired in Athens, but not found there.
Lousy pictures from this are published by Blazquez, Zephyrus 8, 1957
I'll have to check that out. Thanks!
Quote:There was only one helmet from Neapolis Scythica. It was first reconstructed as an attic (inspired by depictions from the tomb of Lyson and Kallikles) by Dombrovsky and Pogrebova, but Zaicev showed that it was a piloid.
Thanks, that makes sense. I guess the drawing in Maslennikov and Treister's article is just a poor reproduction.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian