A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 89
ary. A shield bearing the first word of a similar inscriptionhas since been found at Olympia, and was probably part of the sameoffering. Another helmet (No. 186) has five letters, OAVMn,scratched on the corner of one of the cheek-pieces in characters ofabout 500 B.C. The complete word was perhaps… … Fig. 68.—Graeco-Italian Helmet op Debased Corinthian Form (No. 191). 1:6 The date of the writing is the beginning of the fifth century. Thishelmet, which comes from South Italy, differs from the Corinthianonly in having holes for the ears, but it is really the first of a newtype, the so-called…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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