09-04-2007, 09:30 PM
Hi Giannis !
Liked the photos you posted !
The helmet type is usually called 'Negau' as you doubtless will have seen, and is peculiar to the Etruscans. It is characterised by its heavy rim and the medial ridge, and is not purely conical like the Pilos.
Like the Pilos, they too can often be crested.
An earlier, less developed Etruscan 'conical pot' helmet is often illustrated - a trophy taken by the Greeks from the Etruscans at the naval battle of Cumae and dedicated at Olympia ( I think).
Liked the photos you posted !
The helmet type is usually called 'Negau' as you doubtless will have seen, and is peculiar to the Etruscans. It is characterised by its heavy rim and the medial ridge, and is not purely conical like the Pilos.
Like the Pilos, they too can often be crested.
An earlier, less developed Etruscan 'conical pot' helmet is often illustrated - a trophy taken by the Greeks from the Etruscans at the naval battle of Cumae and dedicated at Olympia ( I think).
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
