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| IMPORTANT HELLENISTIC IRON HELMET OF BOEOTIAN TYPE, WITH A CHAIN MAIL SHIRT FOUND INSIDE The crown tapering to a pointed apex with spike, with broad rim, the front molded with a contoured triangle scrolling to stylized volutes at either side suspending the cheekpieces. Left cheekpiece and edge of brim restored. Found in Yugoslavia. Cf. H. Pflug, et al, Antike Helme, pp. 159-163, pls. 20-33. For another helmet of this type but missing the cheekpieces and plume spike, see: H. Born, Restaurierung antiker Bronzewaffen: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, II, Mainz, 1993, no. VII; and M. Junkelmann, Römische Helme: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, VIII, Mainz, 2000, p. 13, pl. 4, foldout I (AG 359). Ex German collection, acquired in Krefeld, Germany, in the 1990s. Balkans, 2nd-1st Century BC H. 19 1/2 in. (49 cm.) LH0802 P.O.R. Sales |
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| Found when discovered, balled inside the helmet, was a Hellenistic iron chain mail shirt. This accompanies the helmet. |
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