08-10-2013, 02:16 PM
You probably mean these helmets, which are seen in my pictures here. The first is from the Arch of Constantinus, which reused many friezes from older ones erected by Trajanus, Hadrianus and Marcus Aurelius.
You can see two helmets on the middle background, with that odd crest of rose in the middle and feathers on the sides.
The second picture by Angus McBride shows two guard cavalrymen, either Equites Praetoriani or Equites Singulares Augusti (they are on a campaign of Trajanus in Dacia, since they've collected Dacians' heads and a falx/rhomphaia sword). They have the same helmet (attic-type, which is in itself dubious). That crest seems to be very rare, and only pictorial evidence supports it, and I personally don't know anything else about it, I've never seen it anywhere else.
It could be real, or then just an artistic device, which has no proof in reality.
I haven't heard about "Rose of Life" or "Rose Crown of Ecate" (you probably mean Hecate/Hekate, a Greek goddess of whichcraft etc.). Although there is a symbol for Hecate, a round sun disk between two crescent moons pointing outwards, at least it sometimes is associated with Hecate nowadays, I don't know if it was used in ancient times. And it's also more often called a symbol of triple-goddess in neopaganism. It resembles the rose and two feathers a bit, but this is just guessing.
You can see two helmets on the middle background, with that odd crest of rose in the middle and feathers on the sides.
The second picture by Angus McBride shows two guard cavalrymen, either Equites Praetoriani or Equites Singulares Augusti (they are on a campaign of Trajanus in Dacia, since they've collected Dacians' heads and a falx/rhomphaia sword). They have the same helmet (attic-type, which is in itself dubious). That crest seems to be very rare, and only pictorial evidence supports it, and I personally don't know anything else about it, I've never seen it anywhere else.
It could be real, or then just an artistic device, which has no proof in reality.
I haven't heard about "Rose of Life" or "Rose Crown of Ecate" (you probably mean Hecate/Hekate, a Greek goddess of whichcraft etc.). Although there is a symbol for Hecate, a round sun disk between two crescent moons pointing outwards, at least it sometimes is associated with Hecate nowadays, I don't know if it was used in ancient times. And it's also more often called a symbol of triple-goddess in neopaganism. It resembles the rose and two feathers a bit, but this is just guessing.
Antonius Insulae (Sakari)
