Greek helmet weights

[Matthew Amt]

Khairete!

Someone was kind enough to post this link on the Bronze Age Center, Hermann Historica's auction of part of the Axel Guttmann collection.

http://www.hermann-historica.de/auktion ... at49_A.txt

The information for each piece includes its WEIGHT!

Corinthian helmets: 1343 g, 1570 g, 1017 g, 1982 g (though heavily encrusted), 951 g, 1067 g

Chalcidian helmets: 921 g, 791 g, 742 g, 694 g, 800 g

Illyrian helmets: 912 g, 955 g

Pilos helmet: 893 g

FASCINATING stuff! Should put a few arguments to rest, though no doubt it will cause a few more.

Enjoy!

Matthew

[Comerus Gallus]

Once was posted by me and Tarby, but because all of them was on Ebay site, the moderators delet it, long ago.

Good to see it back Matt!

[hoplite14gr]

The last one is "attic" not "chakidic".
The weight of the Corinthians aproxiamate the weight of the M-1942 U.S. army helmet while the other approximate the weight of the "chech" design that was used by the Italian, Greek, Polish and Belgian armies at WW2.
Kind regards

[Anonymous]

It's excellent, useful material. Thanks, Matt. Laus.

[Ioannis]

Here's a bronze helmet from a Late Bronze Age (ca. 1400 BC) grave near Knossos, Crete. The holes round the edge indicate that it was originally lined with leather or felt.