A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 92
century B.C. Another Greek type has the shape ofa Phrygian cap, with the addition of movable cheek-pieces, of whichthe hinges are partially preserved (No. 200). Such a helmet isoften worn by Amazons, for instance by the Queen Hippolyte on anAttic bowl of about 450 B.C., which is exhibited in the… … Fig. 73.—Etruscan and Early Italian Helmets(Nos. 207, 203). 1: 5. the shape of crests of sea-horses, is Italian, but the same typeappears on Greek monuments. Italian helmets are more like hats,_ giving no protection to theface unless cheek-pieces are added. An early form, from Ancona,is almost…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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