Centurion helmet from Sisak, Croatia

[Rado]

Often the well decorated and silver plated helmets used in reenactment are  transcribed as a parade one. But in this model things are in different way .This is a helmet that has been repeatedly used by perhaps a few field centurions and was most likely lost during military actions in forcing the Kupa  river in the time of the Pannonian uprising war.
“Despite being numerous,
the finds from Sisak are perhaps the least likely to
be connected with any certainty to the Pannonian
revolt from 6 to 9 AD. It is not due to chronological
issues because we believe that all of them might
have been in use during the Pannonian
revolt. It
should also be pointed out that we did not mention
many finds from Siscia whose dating is more uncertain
or very broad, like spears, javelins, arrows, lead
shots, fragments of chain and scale armour, harness
equipment pieces, etc., although
they could have
been used during the Pannonian
war as well. The
problem with finds from Siscia, or we should better
say the difficulty of connecting
finds from Siscia to
the Pannonian revolt lies in the fact that this place
was an important military garrison from 35 BC till
at least 43 AD when the 9th legion left for Britain.  “
citation (Archaeological Museum,
zagreb; photo courtesy
Prof Radman-Livaja)
I install and cups for the red enamel on all concentric rosettes as in the archeology.Hammering of thousands of these holes took me 20 days work. It is a slow and keyed process . In front of me were constantly the photos I had done and I tried to imitate the work of the ancient warrior. Next is polishing and cleaning of the helmet and prepare for galvanized first with tin and then with pure silver 1000 sample. According to me cups of concentric rosettes were filled with red enamel, so I also tried to reconstruct and this detail.