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| IMPORTANT MIGRATION PERIOD BRONZE AND SILVER HELMET Bronze, calotte-shaped, segmented helmet with riveted silver plates. The pierced forehead band and the two straps of embossed bronze plate pinned with flat bronze rivets. The vertical segments are ridged.There are remnants of the former iron mail neck curtain. Silver segments of very thin high quality silver sheeting are fastened to the bands with large knobbed rivets. Only rusted remnants of the iron reinforcements for the silver have been preserved in the interior (originally the iron plates extended beyond the bronze forehead band and were bent back over the outside.) There are remnants of zigzag decoration on two silver plates (left front and right rear). A longish nasal of massive and equally high quality silver. There was a wave shape decorative iron plate above the nasal, detectable from traces of oxidation. No indication of cheekpieces or of interior lining. Helmets from the fringes of the Roman Empire, the so-called Barbaricum, are extremely rare, as only the highest level of barbarian nobility possessed them. This light and expensive version corresponds to the helmet of a high dignitary, not a battle helmet. This type of helmet appeared mostly between the 5th and late 6th centuries A.D. widely distributed between the Rhine and the western fringes of the Eurasian steppe region. Published: Konrad Theiss, Attila und die Hunnen, 2007. Central and Eastern Europe, 5th-6th Century AD H. 9.25 in. (23.5 cm.) GL0801 P.O.R. FULL-SCREEN FLASH SLIDESHOW Sales |
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