Caucasus warrior burial c. 200 BC

[Robert Vermaat]

Treasure-Filled Warrior's Grave Found in Russia: http://www.livescience.com/27275-ancient...grave.html

Image Gallery: http://www.livescience.com/27271-ancient...casus.html

The necropolis is located near the town of Mezmay and appears to have been in use between the third century B.C. and the beginning of the second century A.D.

Some nice stuff:


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[Vindex]

Wow! That helmet with the ram's horns is beautiful!

What is the opinion of the hole in the top of the lines and zig zag helemt then?

[koechlyruestow]

I've seen those horns before, on a Scythian helmet from the Kuban area, dated to the 5th century BCE. McBride has made a very sloppy painting of that helmet in Osprey's Scythians, plate F1, but I will look for the Soviet publication in which I saw the drawing of that helmet. It looks very much like the first helmet, but without (attachments for) cheek-plates and with eyes and volutes on the front. The Soviets made it an "Etrurian" helmet: If it is obviously not Greek, than we always have the Etrurians to save a European origin. :wink:

(The Etrurians did make a statue of a warrior with a helmet with such horns, but that helmet is of a Corinthian or Chalcidian type)