Pseudo Attic Helmet

Roman pseudo attic helmet 2nd century ad.

Pseudo attic helmet.

The attic helmet was a type of helmet that originated in classical greece and was widely used in italy and the hellenistic world until well into the roman empire its name is a modern historiographic convention. Roman pseudo attic helmet 2nd century ad. All lots with an upper estimate value of 1 000 and above and all western asiatic lots are searched against the art loss register database. A part of this had to do with how romans and especially their praetorian guard was depicted with the stylized attic helmet variant with engravings and plumes.

As an artistic motif variations of the attic helmet long outlasted other contemporary helmet types being used to impart an archaic look to depictions of generals emperors and praetorians throughout the hellenistic and roman periods as such a form of attic helmet has become part of the popular image of a roman officer as found in art from the. Two sheet silver embossed plaques for a pseudo attic helmet each with shaped edges embossed around the edges with a double pearled ornament with fixing holes. The decoration of both plaques seems to represent a cult scene most probably to jupiter and epona in one plaque to jupiter alone. The bust of jupiter is represented on both plaques at the centre of the diadem frontally with long.

As an artistic motif variations of the attic helmet long outlasted other contemporary helmet types being used to impart an archaic look to depictions of generals emperors and praetorians throughout the hellenistic and roman periods. Even the early true attic helmets of the republic have the visor raised as one with the skull rather than the hollywod extra visor although an original one of these exists and can be seen in robinson. At the time of robinson the only known koblenz bubenheim helmet known was a stripped iron skull with no decoration. Since then several spectacular 1st century cavlary helmets have been found most of a pseudo attic style.

It really just depends on what you call an attic helmet. Roman pseudo attic helmet dating from circa 2nd century ad. As such a form of attic helmet has become part of the popular image of a roman officer as found in art from the. On the other hand the attic helmet was somewhat popular in italy at least as motifs and more so during the roman era.

Roman pseudo attic helmet 2nd century ad. Roman pseudo attic helmet 2nd century ad as an artistic motif variations of the attic helmet long outlasted other contemporary helmet types being used to impart an archaic look to depictions of generals emperors and praetorians example throughout the hellenistic and roman periods. There are lesser known roman helmets so bizarre you probably wouldn t believe them.