Boiotian helmet

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Coin of King Philoxenus with a Boeotian helmet, around 100 BC Chr.
Boiotian helmet from the time of Alexander the Great, Ashmolean Museum .

The Boeotic helmet was in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. A common type of helmet . It was mainly used by the Greek and Macedonian cavalry .

description

Xenophon specifically recommends the Boeotian helmet as cavalry equipment because of the good all-round visibility. The helmet was used less often by the infantry , here especially in Boeotia with Thebes , from which it is named .

Indo-Greek officer with a Boiotian helmet (on a coin by Menander II ), circa 90 BC Chr.

This bronze helmet type is reminiscent of a hat with a folded brim. Painted, engraved specimens with horse tails have come down to us from Hellenistic sources. Well-known representations can be found on the Alexander sarcophagus and on coins . A late depiction can be found on a coin of the last Graeco-Bactrian king Hermaios .

literature

  • Thomas Schäfer : Andres Agathoi. Studies on the reality content of the armament of Attic warriors on monuments of the classical period (= sources and research on the ancient world. Vol. 27). Tuduv-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88073-554-9 (plus habilitation thesis, University, Frankfurt am Main, 1994).
  • Martin Schäfer: Between noble ethos and democracy. Archaeological sources on the Hippeis in archaic and classical Athens (= sources and research on the ancient world. Vol. 37). Tuduv-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-88073-584-0 (also dissertation, University, Munich, 1999).