Etruscan crested helmet
| Etruscan crested helmet | |
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 Combed helmet from the warrior grave of Poggio alle Croci (Museo Guarnacci, Volterra) |
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| Information | |
| Weapon type: | Protective weapon |
| Designations: | Etruscan crested helmet |
| Use: | helmet |
| Working time: | about 1000-600 BC BC, Villanova culture , also earlier |
| Region of origin / author: |
Italy , armory |
| Distribution: | mainly Italy |
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The Etruscan crested helmet is a protective weapon from early Iron Age Italy. The earliest find was made on the Lueg Pass along an old road, where the hoard was found by someone in the 13th to 12th centuries BC. BC, who probably crossed the Alps there. There were similar individual finds in Slovenia, Veneto, Raetia and especially of course in Italy.
description
An Etruscan crested helmet is usually made of bronze. The helmet bell is made hemispherical. A conspicuous, triangular comb, which is made of sheet bronze and is hollow, is attached to the apex. The comb is decorated with several decorative buttons and riveted to the helmet bell . On the front and back of the helmet, immediately in front of and behind the comb, metal sheets are attached, on each of which three bronze bolts (so-called "false rivets") are attached. Helmets of this type were also used as a cover for funeral urns, the shape of which can be understood as a model of the later Pomeranian face urns, but without the Etruscan helmet shape as a cover. The shape of the comb could vary and is reconstructed with a plume of feathers. During early Greek antiquity the helmet shape disappeared again and was replaced by Celtic and Roman helmet shapes.
literature
- Board of the German Archaeological Association V., Archaeological Seminar of the University of Mannheim (ed.): The inclusion of foreign cultural influences in Etruria and the problem of retarding in Etruscan art (= writings of the German Archaeological Association. Vol. 5, ZDB -ID 518788-6 ). Lectures from the symposium of the German Archaeological Association, Mannheim, 8. – 10. February 1980. German Association of Archaeologists c / o Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mannheim 1981, pp. 41, 43.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugh O'Neill Hencken : The earliest European helmets. Bronze Age and early Iron Age (= American School of Prehistoric Research. Bulletin 28, ZDB -ID 223123-2 ). Peabody Museum, Cambridge MA 1971, p. 99.
Web links
- Etruscan crested helmet, Villanova culture, 8th century B.C. , Hermann Historica, auction 49, October 19, 2005
- Etruscan Combed Helmet at Larp.com ( Live Action Role Playing )
