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Characteristically cone-shaped, bronze Pilos helmet with broad, offset rim. With a central Gorgoneion on the brow and four-spoke wheel appliqués on the sides above the pairs of holes for the chinstraps. Three piece helmet crest with wave-shaped and serrated decoration.

h. 23.4 cm

4th- 3rd century BC

Bronze

Provenance

Axel Guttmann Collection (H188/AG 550)
Acquired at Herman Historica, Antiquities from the Axel Guttmann Collection and other Properties, sale 56, Munich, 8th October 2008, lot 51

Publications

Hermann Historica, Auction 56, Munich, October 2008, lot 51
M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 209, fig. 82
Nice-Matin, 3rd March 2013, p. 32
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, p. 95
R. Hixenbaugh, Ancient Greek Helmets : A Complete Guide and Catalogue, 2019, p. 534, H263
W. Goralski, "Pyrrhus Meets Rome. A New Reconstruction of Heracle" in J. Oorthuys (ed.), Ancient Warfare, August-September 2019, Vol. XIII, Issue I, p. 32

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Pilos Type Crested Helmet

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