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THE PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A GREEK BRONZE HELMET OF ILLYRIAN TYPE
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 600-550 B.C.
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A GREEK BRONZE HELMET OF ILLYRIAN TYPE
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 600-550 B.C.
Of hammered sheet, with a flaring neck-guard, two parallel double ridges running across the crown front to back, a perforation between the ridges at the front, one on each ridge at the crown, and two at the back, all for attachment of a crest, a raised horizontal ridge above the brow, the perimeter with evenly-spaced gilt-bronze rivets, the proper left cheek-guard with a perforation at the forward tip
11 in. (27.9 cm.) high
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 600-550 B.C.
Of hammered sheet, with a flaring neck-guard, two parallel double ridges running across the crown front to back, a perforation between the ridges at the front, one on each ridge at the crown, and two at the back, all for attachment of a crest, a raised horizontal ridge above the brow, the perimeter with evenly-spaced gilt-bronze rivets, the proper left cheek-guard with a perforation at the forward tip
11 in. (27.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Hirschberg Collection, Germany, 1980s.
with Fortuna, New York, 2007 (Venerable Traditions, no. 33).
with Fortuna, New York, 2007 (Venerable Traditions, no. 33).
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