"Carthaginian helmet from Egadi" Topic
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| Plasticviking3 | 12 Nov 2014 3:19 a.m. PST |
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| GurKhan | 12 Nov 2014 3:41 a.m. PST |
Interesting. I did wonder if it would turn out to be anything like the Hellenistic-style helmets on Punic coins from Gades –
– but it looks like only a distant relation at best. |
| Plasticviking3 | 12 Nov 2014 11:26 a.m. PST |
You must mean Attic style helmets +? This thing looks very Hellenistic to me.Be nice to see it cleaned up, though. |
| GurKhan | 12 Nov 2014 1:41 p.m. PST |
Funny, that picture was showing this afternoon – now it's gone. Anyone interested, try link Personally, no. I wouldn't call the one on the coin an Attic helmet: it resembles neither the original style worn by Athena in C6th-5th art, nor the classic "Italo-Attic" very closely. "Hellenistic" is as good a description as any (not to suggest that the Egadi helmet isn't equally Hellenistic). Of course there is no fixed definition of "Attic" helmets, so some might call it Attic, I suppose, but that seems an odd description to me. |
| Plasticviking3 | 12 Nov 2014 2:20 p.m. PST |
Good with picture. helmets have many hybrids. The Roman and Punic sides share more than we normally think of. Armour and ships at least. |
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finally paints the first of his Gauls...
