10-25-2009, 06:59 PM
To return to the original topic, here is something that I remembered I'd found. It's a pilos helmet from Amphipolis likely dating to the late 4th c. BC, and it has two holes for the attachment of cheek pieces:
http://www.antiquemilitaryhistory.com/i ... ipolis.JPG
http://www.antiquemilitaryhistory.com/i ... ipolis.JPG
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