08-03-2006, 04:39 PM
Quote:I had been giving much grief over at the HBO forums about my nitpicking over the HBO Rome Helmet and how it should have been a Montefortino instead of this fantasy one.
Actually we have had a discussion about the 'Rome' helmet before on another thread, perhaps Jasper can help here. It was based on an example found near Emessa in Syria but was dismissed by Robinson as a Victorian fake and seems to have largely been forgotten since. It is worth remembering however that another silvered helmet of cavalry sports type was also found in the same area and that has been accepted as a genuine type.
Nevertheless whatever the origins of the Emessa/Rome helmet, it would appear at least in the archaeological record to be much of a one off, compared with the Montefortino or Coolus types. It would have been far better to have used them in the series. The Emessa helmet is more of an 'attic' type and the only Celtic connection would be that it looks like the helmets used in Asterix!
The DVD set is worth getting and as Daniel points out the makers say everything is as accurate as possible :wink: .
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.