11-21-2009, 02:09 AM
Jorg wrote:
I don't think one can be quite so categorical. There are examples of 'northern' montefortinos with horns/wings, seemingly of celtic manufacture, and 'piloi' which have clearly 'Greek-style' ornament, but also an obvious celtic motif of flat horns/wings-and-wheels added......
The there's this rather late Spanish example....
Quote:No, wings and horns are definite original part of the decoration. Many helmets depicted in attic vase-paintings have comparable features, but all helmets with preserved horns or wings com from South Italy.
I don't think one can be quite so categorical. There are examples of 'northern' montefortinos with horns/wings, seemingly of celtic manufacture, and 'piloi' which have clearly 'Greek-style' ornament, but also an obvious celtic motif of flat horns/wings-and-wheels added......
The there's this rather late Spanish example....
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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