02-19-2013, 03:13 PM
Quote:Plate 3 - the death of General Gainas (12/23/AD400) - from D'Amato's The Eastern Romans 330-1461 AD
In addition to the Column of Arcadius as a source, the text says:
Quote:Their helmets are based on an actual specimen found in the Theodosian fortress of Richborough in Britain.
Quote:I think the Richborough helmet is the one shown on the guy with the red feather crest? (Robert Vermaat kindly sent me the pdf from JRMES a while ago). Not sure which helmet the Osjiek find refers to - anyone got more info?
Several fragments of helmets were found in Richborough, however none of these were face masks. Two had a crest. See this post by Aitor from 6 years ago:
http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/16-mark...=90#107900
One was the same crest as the Linz helmet:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...C3%A4r.jpg
Which is to my knowledge the only Late Roman helmet not yet produced as a replica :whistle:
So I think the other one is meant in the text. Not sure if it looks like that, however.
No face masks, anyway.
Robert Vermaat
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THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)