Agamemnon\'s Helmet

[Dan Howard]

Your basic problem, as I see it, is that you need to come up with something that makes the parts of the helmet called bosses, opaworta, sheets or whatever, just as visually arresting and obvious as are the horns and the crest. If you cannot come up with some reasonable method for doing this you are producing a helmet based on only part of the Homeric description. The bronze helmet remains you have shown with little raised roundels on the cheekpieces and skull just don't cut the mustard as being visually arresting enough to be given a specific description.

I agree and have already said that we think Homer is more likely speaking about the four additional plates added to the kegelhelm rather than decorative bosses. But we can cover both options in the same construction. Homer also frequently describes helmets as "hollow-eyed" - the only helmets we can find with that feature from the right time period is the kegelhelm.