Roman Use of the Attic Helmet

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Although the panalopy is from Rhodes, That type of helmet I've seen before in Roman sculpture, on part of a relief from the Temple of Fortuna at praeneste that shows the bow of a Roman warship, almost all of the soldiers on the ship have oval shields with attic helmets, except the last one on the right has what appears to be a depiction of the Rhodian panalopy helmet. Also the Ludovisi Sarcophagus (although of later time period) seems to show the same kind of helmet (although it could be italo-corinthian) on the officers (although it also shows scale musculatas and helmets so who knows its accuracy). On the altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus one of the two mail clad legionaries wears this kind of helmet. Along with the corfu pics posted earlier, we know this type of helmet certainly existed, and it is represented in some roman art. Officers had to have worn SOME kind of headgear in the field and IMHO it had to have been different from the rank and file, even if that only difference is a crest.