09-27-2009, 01:56 AM
Quote:My current hunting targets are:
1) an attic helmet in the art market. At the Leo Koenig Galleries, New York, there was 2004 an exhibition called "... as time goes by". The antiquities were sponsored by Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Cologne. On the very small images there's an attic helmet, apparently of the seven-piece-construction, visible.
2) an attic helmet, apparently one-pieced, from Marvinci, now in the Museum of Macedonia, Skopje. I haven't done much work on this yet, but I'm missing an contact-address of this museum.
Do you know during which years of excavation this helmet was found by any chance? I have gone through excavation reports from Marvinci during the 1960s, but I've never seen anything about a helmet.
Quote:3) an hellenistic helmet unlike anything I've seen before. Reportedly unearthed during the metro-excavations at the Pompeion, Athens, but not published in the exhibition-catalogue "The City beneath the City".
4) a piloid in the museum of Shumen, Bulgaria.
I seem to remember seeing a helmet from Shumen somewhere, but I can't seem to find it at the moment... Do you have some more information, by any chance?
Quote:This is my basic list of attic helmets:
Melos (Berlin), Melos (Paris), Poteidania, art market Munich (Hermann Historica 43, 2002), 2x Prodromi (Korfu), Athens (Madrid), Kerc (St. Petersburg), Bubuj (Moscow), Gavani (Brailei), Kamenka (Kherson), Grushevsky (Novocherkassk) and Krasnodar. Plus the mentioned fragments and two doubtful forms from Ohrid (Berlin) and Orzonikize (Moscow).
Do you not consider the Pergamon helmet to be Attic? I think the only helmet I don't know of out of this list is the Athens helmet. Would you be able to provide me with a bit more information on it?
Quote:I haven't done a catalogue of piloids yet, but I know examples in Oxford, Turin, 2x Merdshana, Achtanizovskaja, Kazanluk.
You can add to this list the helmet from Scythian Neapolis from the tomb of Skiluros, and perhaps also a fragment of a helmet including a volute from the same site (Fig. 3 in Maslennikov and Treister's article publishing the Lake Chokrak find; it looks similar to a fragment belonging to the helmet from Skiluros' tomb, but looks different enough that it's either a very poor reproduction or a different helmet altogether); and the helmets from Greki 2 and Orechovka. All three of these are published with further details in A.V. Simonenko, "Bewaffnung und Kriegswesen der Sarmaten und späten Skythen im nördlichen Schwarzmeergebiet," in Eurasia antiqua 7 (2001): 259-63.
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
