Early Thraex helmet ?

[Conal]

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... D%26sa%3DN

[Martin Moser]

Quite certainly not, as AFAIK the gladiatorial type of Thraex only comes into existence a couple hundred years later with the establishment of gladiatorial games as a form of "politically grounded entertainment"

cheers,

Martin

[Conal]

What about the possibility that it could illustrate a tradition of the Griffins head which goes back to the early contests ?

Dated to 350 - 300 BC and the first recorded contest was 264 (?) BC which is one, or two, generations away.

It looks to me like an add on at a later date but if its a genuine add on and it was not uncommon for warriors then it might have been adopted by the Thraex at a later date.

hey .. I'm fishing here.