first original Carthaginian helmet found?

[richsc]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/...ource=t.co

[Nathan Ross]

Sounds exciting! Hard to know what to make of the helmet though...


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[jho]

Interesting but, yes, very difficult to make anything of the helmet prior to restoration.

The excavators earlier speculated that one of the Montefortinos (PW11-0030) could have been Carthaginian based on an inscription. For a publication of the finds made to date see

Tusa & Royal

Also, one of the rams, Egadi 7 has one of the most realistic depictions of a Montefortino with a triple feather crest. See fig. 10 in Tusa & Royal and pic no. 4 on this site:

Egadi 7

as well as this great site:

rpmnautical

[jho]

Based on the description in the text (nasal, deep neck guard), the helmet appears most likely to be a variant of the Chalcidian or even Ibero-Chalcidian type. At least in Spain these helmets appear to have remained in use through the end of the 3rd century BC:
RAT