07-29-2007, 01:02 PM
Thanks for all the kind posts, and really great job with the Googleing, Jim. Your search engine skills are far better than mine! Yes, there was a helmet in the Roman section, according to the guidebook I got from the museum it is from the Horreum Margi (Cuprija) archeological site. Not sure where that dig is in the Balkans or the time period of the site.
I wasn't very impressed with the helmet, and seem to recall it as just a simple iron bowl without adornement that had a vertical neck extension around the back, going close to the skin almost a straight line down from the back of the helmet with rounded corners, that probably would cover the entire back of the head/neck area. No cheek pieces, ear cutouts, visor, crests, etc. The neck plate looked like it was originally a seperate piece of iron that had been added to the bowl helmet by wrapping a band of it around the bottom edge of the bowl. Struck me as either a very late period helmet or maybe auxiliary, but the initial impression I had of it was that it looked like a medieval piece that wouldn't have been out of place among some of the helmets in the later period displays there, especially those from the Ottoman or Turkish areas.
"Ricktavivs"
Rick Rachal
I wasn't very impressed with the helmet, and seem to recall it as just a simple iron bowl without adornement that had a vertical neck extension around the back, going close to the skin almost a straight line down from the back of the helmet with rounded corners, that probably would cover the entire back of the head/neck area. No cheek pieces, ear cutouts, visor, crests, etc. The neck plate looked like it was originally a seperate piece of iron that had been added to the bowl helmet by wrapping a band of it around the bottom edge of the bowl. Struck me as either a very late period helmet or maybe auxiliary, but the initial impression I had of it was that it looked like a medieval piece that wouldn't have been out of place among some of the helmets in the later period displays there, especially those from the Ottoman or Turkish areas.
"Ricktavivs"
Rick Rachal
