11-17-2005, 04:44 PM
Greg:
Be warned that there is confusion of terminology here. The helmet labeled "Thracian" in the By The Sword catalog is actually a murmillo helm, with the angular crest. The Thracian gladiator always had a curved crest terminating in a griffin's head, like the one called, for some reason, the "mosaic helmet." The hoplomachus had a helmet like the Thracian's, but without the griffin protome. Also, the visor on the third helmet pictured is inaccurate, at least for the Pompeii period. In that era, the visor was always built up of cheek plates, separate pierced eye-guards, reinforcing strips, etc. It doesn't make much sense, but that's how they built them.
Be warned that there is confusion of terminology here. The helmet labeled "Thracian" in the By The Sword catalog is actually a murmillo helm, with the angular crest. The Thracian gladiator always had a curved crest terminating in a griffin's head, like the one called, for some reason, the "mosaic helmet." The hoplomachus had a helmet like the Thracian's, but without the griffin protome. Also, the visor on the third helmet pictured is inaccurate, at least for the Pompeii period. In that era, the visor was always built up of cheek plates, separate pierced eye-guards, reinforcing strips, etc. It doesn't make much sense, but that's how they built them.
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