11-01-2006, 09:10 PM
Even despite the Vermeule article in JRS? I read the article (courtesy of JSTOR) and looked at the pictures of the helmet and, though not exact, the one in ROME does bare some striking similarities.
Quote:The helmet illustrated in Watson The Roman Soldier plate 11 is allegedly from Emesa in Syria and dated to the first century AD. It was published by Cornelius Vermeule in Journal of Roman Studies 50 (1960), 8-11, with very good quality b/w illustrations. The helmet is silver (yes, silver), making it unique for Roman helmets, I think, and it’s also unique in that nothing else like it has been discovered in the archaeological record, (again, as far as I’m aware). Vermuele draws on sculptural evidence of the Arch of Constantine and Trajan’s Column for comparable pieces, and you can see one on T’s Col at the Stoa website here: [url:qt3p3wpx]http://www.stoa.org/trajan/buildtrajanpage.cgi?248[/url]