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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.

Ex collection of Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin.

Earlier 1st Millennium BC

H. 8 1/8 in. (20.8 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2010, no. 246
HMQ46
$14,500


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