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.

h. 27.9 cm

Archaic Period, c. 600-550 BC

Bronze

Provenance

  • Hirschberg Collection, Germany, 1980s
  • Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, "Venerable Traditions", 2007, no. 33
  • Acquired at Christie's, New York, "Antiquities" sale 2323, 10th June 2010, lot 78

Publications

  • Fortuna Fine Arts, Venerable Traditions, New York, 2007, no. 33
  • Christie's, Antiquities sale 2323, New York, 10th June 2010, lot 78
  • M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 201, fig. 59

Exhibitions

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

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