12-29-2009, 07:49 AM
Junkelmann considers them pre Augustan - Republican helmets.
There is a lot of iconographic evidence that Gladiators fought without visors before the Augustan reforms.
They would have had cheek pieces though, which sadly have been lost.
Actually the visors of later helmets are also cheek pieces that grew to cover the face more and more and finaly met in the middle of the face.
I would realy love to see your pictures John, as Junkelmann has only very small pictures of those helmets in his book.
There is a lot of iconographic evidence that Gladiators fought without visors before the Augustan reforms.
They would have had cheek pieces though, which sadly have been lost.
Actually the visors of later helmets are also cheek pieces that grew to cover the face more and more and finaly met in the middle of the face.
I would realy love to see your pictures John, as Junkelmann has only very small pictures of those helmets in his book.
Olaf Küppers - Histotainment, Event und Promotion - Germany
