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first original Carthaginian helmet found? - richsc - 07-07-2014
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2014/07/05/first-armor-from-carthage-romes-great-rival-found-off-sicily/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co
first original Carthaginian helmet found? - Nathan Ross - 07-07-2014
Sounds exciting! Hard to know what to make of the helmet though...
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first original Carthaginian helmet found? - jho - 07-07-2014
Interesting but, yes, very difficult to make anything of the helmet prior to restoration.
The excavators earlier speculated that one of the Montefortinos (PW11-0030) could have been Carthaginian based on an inscription. For a publication of the finds made to date see
Tusa & Royal
Also, one of the rams, Egadi 7 has one of the most realistic depictions of a Montefortino with a triple feather crest. See fig. 10 in Tusa & Royal and pic no. 4 on this site:
Egadi 7
as well as this great site:
rpmnautical
first original Carthaginian helmet found? - jho - 07-07-2014
Based on the description in the text (nasal, deep neck guard), the helmet appears most likely to be a variant of the Chalcidian or even Ibero-Chalcidian type. At least in Spain these helmets appear to have remained in use through the end of the 3rd century BC:
RAT