Painted legionary helmets?

[Tarbicus]

[url:105we5ri]http://people.freenet.de/u-bahr/lombardisch.jpg[/url]
Non-Roman bronx example from a lombard tomp. It shows a special form of the Negau type with rivetted eyes and eye brows. The pupils of the eye are made of (formerly) blue glass.

Jim, the Imperial Gallic with the painted eyes is quite nice but why should the Romans have embossed the eye brows but only painted the eyes. Also they used to polish their armor regularly and I cannot imagine that painted eyes would have endured this procedure for long.

Excellent points Uwe and I think is the main flaw, if not fatal one, in the idea of painted eyes so far. Thanks. The eyebrows could just be to emphasis the real ones under the helmet's rim I suppose, as well as adding protection.