"Etruscan soldier" Topic

Very nice illustration here showing finely shaped sword and wide rimmed 'hoplite' shield with pronounced dome.

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Interesting, thanks for posting the link!

What kind of head-gear is the Hoplite wearing there? Is that a damaged helmet, or something else?

It almost looks like a phrygian helmet.

It looks like hair flopping over a tiara.

Cheek pieces should cover the cheeks fully or be a leather strap making full circumference around the chin….

Fighting mythological sphinxes… Likely to be some fabled hero more easily depicted perhaps without a helmet….

Glad to be wrong though… There's not much to go on…

Love the boots though!

If one goes just north of Rome to Trevignano on Lake Bracciano there's a little Etruscan museum in the main square area whose crowning exhibit is a dead Etruscan warrior laid out as in death (the rock he was laid out on cut out whole) aand with many grave goods (many the black Attic Greeks style, probably imported). 6 years ago I didn't know really what details to look for, but he was buried with bronze chariot pieces, had a bronze shield and burial pins, and clump of rust at his left hip that was roughly sword-shaped. I wish I'd known what type of shield to look for(though I remember that time and the grave had not been kind to it). I'm going back this spring, so I'll take some pics and post them.

That cuirass says to me "this is not an artist who is concerned with getting details of armour correct". That said, I agree it's a Phrygian-Thracian style helmet, with the tip of the skull slightly damaged or imperfectly painted – you can see the outline, but the tip isn't filled with the same colour as the rest. The "tiara" looks like the brow-plate effect that you get on Attic and some Phrygian helmets.