Inv. n°: MMoCA554
Greek Bronze Helmet of Illyrian Type
Of hammered sheet, with a flaring neck-guard, two parallel double ridges running across the crown front to back, a perforation between the ridges at the front, one on each ridge at the crown, and two at the back, all for attachment of a crest, a raised horizontal ridge above the brow, the perimeter with evenly-spaced gilt-bronze rivets, the proper left cheek-guard with a perforation at the forward tip.
Provenance
Publications
- , Venerable Traditions, New York
- , Antiquities sale 2323, New York
- , "Graeco-Italic Militaria", Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France
Exhibitions
- Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011
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