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| PHOENICIAN BRONZE HELMET The bullet-shaped domed body is topped by a small knob. A rare, heavyweight helmet from the eastern Mediterranean. Some identical helmets were recovered in the eighties from a wreck lying in Israeli coastal waters. Earlier 1st Millennium BC H. 8 in. (20.8 cm.) Ex collection of Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, 2011, no. 197. HM1019 $16,500 Sales |
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