07-09-2010, 01:03 AM
Sorry, Giannis, but there are a number of actual examples dated second quarter of the 5 C !! If you look at Connolly's 'timelines' in his evolution diagram, you'll see each band gets bigger ( because there are more examples) and his latest examples, just below the "500 BC" line are all early 5 C BC examples, with the latest being the Thracian - c. 460 BC.
Here is another photo of a 5C BC example, a photo I took in the British museum last year of a Thracian helmet clearly dedicated as a trophy, marked 'Hiaron'/ sacred....if you read the card, you'll see it is dated 450-400 BC and was found at Lake Copais in Boeotia. It would be tempting to associate this find with the nearby battle of Coronea, fought in 447 BC, when the Boeotian league led by Thebes defeated the Athenians.
Here is another photo of a 5C BC example, a photo I took in the British museum last year of a Thracian helmet clearly dedicated as a trophy, marked 'Hiaron'/ sacred....if you read the card, you'll see it is dated 450-400 BC and was found at Lake Copais in Boeotia. It would be tempting to associate this find with the nearby battle of Coronea, fought in 447 BC, when the Boeotian league led by Thebes defeated the Athenians.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(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
(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
