Books on Gladiators

[jvrjenivs]

The Pseudoaltisch helmet sketch on page 50 and the Weisenau-Niedermormter + the Niederbieber helmet sketches had no photographs of them in the book, why? Is there a photograph of the Psuedoaltisch helmet somewhere on the web?

I think mainly because this are helmet which are taken direct from the army. You can see pictures of most of these types in het RAT helmet database on the main site.

And did Junklemann make any remarks about this Pseudoaltisch helmet? Plus, why didn’t the photograph of the helmet on page 52 appear as a sketch in the timeline chart on pages 50-51?

First in English attisch (german) is translated to attic. So I'll call it a pseudoattic helmet. The reason the helmet isn't show in the timeline, i think, is this (quote from the text under the picture)

Southitalien helmet of the Chalkidic-Attic-Phrygian-mixture type

It's a mixture of different helmet types and traditions.

Since the early Keltisch-Italische gladiator helmets looked like regular army infantry helmets, did the author say any special remarks about them as to why the romans didnt give them more of a specialized gladiator look like the Griechisch-Hellenistische helmets during that same early time period?

Because the gladiators are derived directly from normal soldiers, and afterwards got their own look. It was a way to show the martial power of Rome.

I’m surprised a statuette like the one that appears on page 13 of the Osprey gladiator book didn’t appear in the Junklemann book. I’ll upload a picture of this statuette here so that you know what I'm referring to.

So what? Why should every picture or statue showing a gladiator be in every book. I don't see why this statue should be in the book, and there are enough others shown in the book, anyway.


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