Greek helmets galore

[The Oracle]

Thanks for posting this! I remember coming across this site years ago and noting it, but forgetting the site itself. Anyway, the find itself sounds extremely interesting, especially since it includes a new iron cuirass from the late fourth century, which is a very big find. Something that big must be a high priority for publication in FYROM archaeological publications. However, the most recent publications of finds from Marvinci are from 1997, and this find seems more recent than that. If it would be published anywhere, I would imagine that it would be in recent issues of Macedoniae Acta Archaeologica.

I will contact the museum!

Oh, right. Gladiator posts a lot of very interesting stuff, but I think that's because he has access to lots of unpublished material from Bulgarian museums. He's posted pictures and info on a lot of very valuable mail finds as well.

I will contact him, too!

But don't you agree that it has the characteristics of imitating an Attic helmet, much like many of the one piece helmets from the Black Sea littoral?

As I said, it's a bit difficult. The one-piece-attic-helmets all have a protruding "Stirnschirm", therefore are following the seven-piece-model in shape and appearance. The helmet from Pergamon doesn't have a "Stirnschirm"! It doesn't look like the hellenistic helmets, but like a archaic one! Hellenistic helmets are surely far more complicated than we can judge from the handful of preserved examples!

Thanks, that makes sense. I guess the drawing in Maslennikov and Treister's article is just a poor reproduction.

The image in Maslennikov -Treister 1997 is a reproduction of Dombrovsky's drawing. The image on the next page shows the Grushevsky-helmet (a reproduction from the lousy catalogue of the museum of Novocherkassk). Treister mentions an attic helmet found in the Apostolidi-Tumulus and now being kept in the museum of Maikop. Unfortunately he doesn't cite anything to this one. I have asked Treister in person recently, but wasn't able to answer me.