04-26-2013, 01:57 AM
I've just finished the guy with the strange Attic Helmet, I'm not satisfied, I tried many times to represent the helmet but my eyes in my mind weren't able to figure it out!
Probably when we speak of 'Artistic convention' we shold take into account that those with the most powerful artistic convention are ourselves! In fact I wasn't able to see how could be built a similar helmet, for me it's simply pure madness! Because probably my graphic imagination is conditioned by my 'Artistic convention' about the Romans....
Anyway, here he is, It's from the tombstone of Severuius Acceptus, I've found him for the first time on the Osprey books of Colonel Macdowall , but I add here the pic posted yesterday by Nathan Ross Optimus Maximus, so this is Severius in all its splendour:
![[Image: SeveriusAcceptus.jpg]](http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p557/ironfather1/SeveriusAcceptus.jpg)
The man is from the Legio V Macedonica for various reasons: the Late roman Attic helmet depicted in the Osprey Book of Colonel Macdowall is a beautifl illustration by Gerry embleton and the man wearing it belongs to the V! Colonel Macdowall wrote that probably, if these helmets ever existed, they were mainly used in the South and East of the Empire, then last but not the least, for me the V is 'The Legion' so... when I think to a Roman Legion I see immediatly the Acanthus of the V.
We are in the second half of the III century, our man is a centurio of the Legio V Macedonica, he has the vitis and he wears a scale armor with a breast plate with a Gorgone head, he has leather greaves with lion heads on it, in the inner of the shiled the acanthus flower of the V (or at least that was my intention!), finally the helmet: This is the best I was able to create looking at the tombstone of Severius, the crest is of bronze and has an eagle on the top, this because I think that a Centurio could afford a good quality equipment and because the III century is the century of the Big Baroque Helmets! ;-)
IMHO the real shape of these Attic helmets was slightly different, but I'll give my personal verision later, in a new illustration, for now this is the work:
![[Image: AtticHelmetmidIIICenturypainted.jpg]](http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p557/ironfather1/AtticHelmetmidIIICenturypainted.jpg)
Probably when we speak of 'Artistic convention' we shold take into account that those with the most powerful artistic convention are ourselves! In fact I wasn't able to see how could be built a similar helmet, for me it's simply pure madness! Because probably my graphic imagination is conditioned by my 'Artistic convention' about the Romans....
Anyway, here he is, It's from the tombstone of Severuius Acceptus, I've found him for the first time on the Osprey books of Colonel Macdowall , but I add here the pic posted yesterday by Nathan Ross Optimus Maximus, so this is Severius in all its splendour:
The man is from the Legio V Macedonica for various reasons: the Late roman Attic helmet depicted in the Osprey Book of Colonel Macdowall is a beautifl illustration by Gerry embleton and the man wearing it belongs to the V! Colonel Macdowall wrote that probably, if these helmets ever existed, they were mainly used in the South and East of the Empire, then last but not the least, for me the V is 'The Legion' so... when I think to a Roman Legion I see immediatly the Acanthus of the V.
We are in the second half of the III century, our man is a centurio of the Legio V Macedonica, he has the vitis and he wears a scale armor with a breast plate with a Gorgone head, he has leather greaves with lion heads on it, in the inner of the shiled the acanthus flower of the V (or at least that was my intention!), finally the helmet: This is the best I was able to create looking at the tombstone of Severius, the crest is of bronze and has an eagle on the top, this because I think that a Centurio could afford a good quality equipment and because the III century is the century of the Big Baroque Helmets! ;-)
IMHO the real shape of these Attic helmets was slightly different, but I'll give my personal verision later, in a new illustration, for now this is the work:
