01-03-2020, 09:03 PM
(01-03-2020, 07:46 PM)Adventurous Artisan Wrote: These are two images of coins minted by Herod and dated year three. Does anyone have thoughts on the type of helmet depicted and know of similar extant helmets?
Not extent examples but the type is common on Hellenistic coins and could be a developed version or variation of the Boetian helmet of earlier times, though it seems likely only the depiction existed so late.
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
