10-01-2009, 10:36 AM
Quote:Thanks a lot for posting this. Given your previous statement that it was unlike any Hellenistic helmet you've ever seen, I'm a little let down, I have to admit! It just looks like a standard Attic with a small Boeotian brim. Very nice find, nonetheless, which seems to be in pretty good condition. A brand new hybrid to confound further attempts at helmet classification.
I will contact the Athenian Ephorate and try to publish it in my work! Let down, why? Well, it's the only preserved original of this type I'm aware of, but I know depictions of this type, eg on grave-stelai from Sidon! See attachment!
Quote:Thanks for that response Paul . I am interested in these later versions. I wonder if anybody has any pictures or illustrations of such later Pilos helms? I will google around a bit and see what I can find, but if anybody on the forum has anything to share that would be great 8) .
This is an example of a late Pilos from the Guttmann collection, supposingly from Paestum.
Jörg