06-10-2004, 10:22 AM
...And as Feugère wrote, an exhaustive study and a typology for those masked helmets remains to be done.<br>
I personally wouldn't risk any firm conclusion regarding masked or not masked helmets on the grave stelas since they are usually very damaged and often badly carved.<br>
Reburrus, for instance, may wear a masked helmet; but he could also wear a Weiler type with the brow bar worked into a laurel crown, as archaeologically attested. (See Robinson and Feugère).<br>
The fact is that as we progress it appears more and more that the Roman army was indeed massively armoured and that the types of armour were more diversified than previously thought. Like that hirtherto unknown pair of iron plate shoulder guards apparently attached to a mail coat, shown with the excellent pics of the Guttman collection. <p></p><i></i>
I personally wouldn't risk any firm conclusion regarding masked or not masked helmets on the grave stelas since they are usually very damaged and often badly carved.<br>
Reburrus, for instance, may wear a masked helmet; but he could also wear a Weiler type with the brow bar worked into a laurel crown, as archaeologically attested. (See Robinson and Feugère).<br>
The fact is that as we progress it appears more and more that the Roman army was indeed massively armoured and that the types of armour were more diversified than previously thought. Like that hirtherto unknown pair of iron plate shoulder guards apparently attached to a mail coat, shown with the excellent pics of the Guttman collection. <p></p><i></i>
