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type of helmet
#1
This republican soldier what type of helmet uses?

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Moncada Martín, Gabriel / MARCII ULPI MESSALA
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#2
Cavalry helmet, Weiler type? Just a wild guess.
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#3
Negative, this soldier is of infantry.


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#4
Looks vaguely Gladiatorial ..... provocator ?
Conal Moran

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#5
Another soldier and the same helmet

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#6
Spanigh light infantry during the Punic Wars wore something similar. Round, no cheeks, no crests, little decoration. It was a sinew cap, not a metal helmet.

I haven't seen anything else like it until the late Empire, around 350 ad.
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#7
Quote:Looks vaguely Gladiatorial
That was my thought -- the shield on the right looks trapezoidal, but is that just poor sculpting?
Dan Diffendale
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#8
Provocators are quite out of the question I think!
They had just one leg protection on the shield-leg and no mail shirt!
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#9
Isn't this one of the Osuna reliefs referred to in H.R.Robinson, The Armour of Imperial Rome, London, (1975) and also published in: Historia de Espana (1954) 1.3 p.555 fig.481-2, and Historia de Espana (1955) 2 p.5f fig.3f ?
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#10
Quote:Isn't this one of the Osuna reliefs referred to in H.R.Robinson, The Armour of Imperial Rome, London, (1975) and also published in: Historia de Espana (1954) 1.3 p.555 fig.481-2, and Historia de Espana (1955) 2 p.5f fig.3f ?

Do you know when it dates to? It definitely seems to be a gladiatorial relief.
Ruben

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#11
I admit: The helmets are strange!!!! They really looks a little bit like provocator helmets too! But all the rest let me believe that this two persons aren't Gladiators!!!!!! If the helmets would be the closed Provocator helmets like they seem a little, the shields wouldn't match to them because of the different timing position!
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#12
I found a photo of a bust of Pyrrhus (Pirro) wearing a similar but more ornate pot helmet. The caption lists it as being in the National Museum in Naples.

The Pyrrhic helmet is a similar pot-helm design with cheek pieces secured by a strap running from the chin along the jaw line to the back of the helm. The carving above has had a lot of wear, and although the vertical carving looks like an upright strap, could it be a cheek piece that has been distorted by weathering?
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#13
In Spain, all the hulls of type montefortino found and studied, they were not carrying the cheeks pieces. A study I reveal that some of them carried straps with clasps and another isolated find, cheeks pieces of leather with adornments of semispheres of bronze. This soldiers' sculpture was found in Osuna (Seville) and dated between the centuries III-II B.C.. Also figures were situated in parade with animals for the sacrifice. These helmets seem not to take cheeks, but a vertical strap and other two that divide from the neck-guard nape to the low part of the jaw.
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