Agamemnon\'s Helmet

[Feinman]

Thanks Jass - just what I was after. Regarding the bosses, Connnolly's reconstruction was based on the helmet found at Tiryns, which has four bosses - two on the cheek guards and two on the bowl itself, and I will probably replicate this on my helmet too.
[attachment=7809]Helmet-tiryns.jpg[/attachment]

But, if we are right about Homeric helmets being kegelhelms, then its possible that Homer was using tetraphaleros to describe the four additional plates that are added to the basic kegelhelm construction - the two cheekpieces, the back piece, and the brow plate. So I'm going to employ this method of construction as well.

I've already commissioned Jeffrey Hildebrandt to make Agamemnon's cuirass. The design has been finalised and work has started. If anyone wants to follow along with its progress then here is the thread.
http://z8.invisionfree.com/Bronze_Age_Ce...topic=1792

Makes Sense! The earliest kegelhelms were just that --a cone riveted at the seam. Anything added to this would be the additional plates. As the bosses would really be primarily decorative designs, I don't think they would have figured into the essential lexicon of helmet construction, though the helmets certainly could have had them.