A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 95
ng, which prove that these strangehelmets were actually worn, though Arrian, writing on tactics inthe second century A.D., says that they were used for display, andnot in battle. The earlier of our examples (No. 208, fig. 77, right),which probably belongs to the first century A.D., is said to… … Fig. 78.—Helmets with Wooden Peg fob Plume and Tubefob Feathee (Nos. 189, 199). 1: 5. the Museum, having been purchased at Aintab in Syria during theoccupation of the country by British troops. Both masks arepierced at eyes, nostrils and mouth, and show traces of attachmentto the helmet above the…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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