Greek helmet painting/designs

[Dan Diffendale]

Here are some examples of designs or painting on Greek helmets, from ceramic evidence...

[Dan Diffendale]

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[Comerus Gallus]

Nice Danno! ...

there should be hundreds of examples. Good thing to avoid impossible repousses :lol: ...

I like apart of the painted helmets, the first one, with the padding covering his ears....

thanks for your help, stuff like this can help to choose designs for our own helms...

Laudes 4 U..

[Gaius Decius Aquilius]

Danno,

Thanks for the excellent posts... are there any more that seem to have a total paint cover, (I note 8980 and 2352 seem to). Are many Corinthians, like 2462, given extensive pain jobs?

Ralph Izard

[hoplite14gr]

Exellent Danno.
Actually the arming cap of the fisrst image exists as part of the national dress of central Greece, kept in the Amfissa folklore Meuseum.
The helmets were not only painted.
The metal decoration was also a way to add thickness to armor with many survivng examples
Kind regards.

[Marius_Ursus]

The helmets were not only painted.
The metal decoration was also a way to add thickness to armor with many survivng examples.

That answered my question before I even got to ask it! :lol:

[caiusbeerquitius]

Great! Laudes!

[Tib. Gabinius]

Two of our painted helmets you can see here
http://erste-legion.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=136

Soon we hope to get some pictures for the hetairoi webside, cause these pictures are just to discuss about techniques and design.
My helmet is, btw, designed like the Ariston gravestele.

[john m roberts]

Gabinius:
Where can I get a calendar like the one behind the helmet? Do I see one of my books there? It looks like the spine on some of my German editions.

[Albert G Lopez]

Gabinius:
Where can I get a calendar like the one behind the helmet?

I did not think you can get that at your local Hallmark store. :lol:

[Anonymous]

Is the figure on the left of the calendar picture male or female? I suspect you could find all the images in the calendar in a good book on black-figure pottery.

[john m roberts]

But a calendar is so cool. Think of the looks you'd get from visitors.

[Dan Diffendale]

Back to the topic... maybe.

This helmet comes from a vase in Paris, Cab. Med. 537+598, ARV 429, 19. The image comes from Nick Sekunda's chapter on Classical Warfare in The Cambridge Ancient History, Plates to Volumes V and VI: The Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C. He describes it as "a new form of composite-helmet, made from combined iron scales and plates," which appeared at this time.

Whether it's decoration or construction, it's a bit of an odd-looking helmet. See my next post for evidence that it does in fact represent scales.

[Dan Diffendale]

Here's a scaly helmet with matching thorax. Sorry about the crease in the middle of the picture -- I can only find it in a kids' book about Leonidas. It might be in London -- can anyone provide more information about this vase?

[Comerus Gallus]

Here's a scaly helmet with matching thorax. Sorry about the crease in the middle of the picture -- I can only find it in a kids' book about Leonidas. It might be in London -- can anyone provide more information about this vase?

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