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With a strong crown ridge and a helical plume sockets on either side terminating in serpent head finials. The forehead area beneath the brow gable embossed with a Gorgoneion flanked by two opposed gryphons. Two finely decorated wings of sheet bronze riveted to the sides and a beaded border along the forehead edge.

h. 29.2 cm

5th-4th century BC

Bronze

Provenance

Ex Axel Guttmann Collection (409a/H126), Berlin, acquired in Paris
Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 2, London, lot 107
Acquired at Hermann Historica, Auction 58, Munich, 7th October 2009, lot 177

Publications

H. Born, Restaurierung antiker Bronzewaffen Sammlung Axel Guttmann, Mainz, 1993, vol. 2, example 1
Christie's London, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 2, 28th April 2004, p. 101, lot 107
Hermann Historica, Auction 58, Munich, 7th October 2009, lot 177
M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 215, fig. 97
R. Hixenbaugh, Ancient Greek Helmets : A Complete Guide and Catalogue, 2019-01-01, p. 495, fig. X385

Exhibitions

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

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Italic Bronze Helmet of Chalcidian Type (from an Armour Set)

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