02-08-2009, 09:09 PM
Quote:gladiator:27eq1fhh Wrote:http://forum.boinaslava.net/showthread.php?t=9369http://www.tforum.info/forum/index.php? ... c=8277&hl=
beotian helmet
It seems pretty clear that in that first image the visor on the left side projects out further than that on the right, so that is the front. In addition, the "spikes" in the rims of such early Hellenistic Boeotian helmets always seem to point toward the front, so it can be said that the left side is the front with some certainty.
Quote:I'm intrigued by the two Hellenistic models with the horns. Are such found outside Bulgaria/Thrace or is it a local variant? Is there a cult association? To what animal do these horns belong? It looks like some sort of goat horn to me, but so thin they're almost like antennae.
It's a local variant. Unfortunately, I can't answer your other questions, but Chris Webber, who sometimes posts here, probably can.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
