10-14-2009, 07:16 PM
Quote:But you just argued that the Marvinci helmet shouldn't be included in the group because it didn't have a visor.... And if studying Hellenistic helmets has taught me anything, it is that there was so much mixing and matching going on with different elements that we can't rely on typologies to reconstruct missing portions of helmets.
Only better photos of the helmet will solve the visor issue, it's just my preliminary opinion that there's a visor missing.
Quote:Furthermore, find spots and archaeological context are really of little consequence when discussing ancient Greek helmets
Only an art-dealer can say something like this.
Jörg