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Lot Essay
Included in this panoply is a Chalcidian helmet, an anatomical cuirass and a pair of greaves. The helmet has a raised median ridge over the crown with coiled snake-headed plume holders and incised wings on either side. The peaked pediment at the front, which is centered by a circular gorgoneion flanked by a pair of winged griffins, narrows at the sides and terminates in volutes before the ear openings. The hinged cheek-guard is embossed with a ram's head.
The breast-plate of the cuirass has a circle of perforations defining the nipples, perhaps to secure now-missing overlays, and a crescentic navel above the lower edge. A beaded wire adorns the edges of the front-, back- and side-plates, and there are conforming rings and fittings preserved for attachment. The greaves have incised bands along the perimeter.
For a closely-related helmet, similarly adorned with a gorgoneion and griffins, and also formerly in the collection of Axel Guttmann, see no. X383 in Hixenbaugh, op. cit. For a cuirass of similar form, also with perforations at the nipples, but preserving the overlays, see the example now in Syracuse, p. 423 in G.P. Carratelli, ed., The Western Greeks.
The breast-plate of the cuirass has a circle of perforations defining the nipples, perhaps to secure now-missing overlays, and a crescentic navel above the lower edge. A beaded wire adorns the edges of the front-, back- and side-plates, and there are conforming rings and fittings preserved for attachment. The greaves have incised bands along the perimeter.
For a closely-related helmet, similarly adorned with a gorgoneion and griffins, and also formerly in the collection of Axel Guttmann, see no. X383 in Hixenbaugh, op. cit. For a cuirass of similar form, also with perforations at the nipples, but preserving the overlays, see the example now in Syracuse, p. 423 in G.P. Carratelli, ed., The Western Greeks.