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CIRCA 500-450 B.C.
Details
A SUITE OF ETRUSCAN BRONZE ARMOR
CIRCA 500-450 B.C.
All of hammered sheet, comprising a Negau type helmet, the high-domed crown with a median ridge running front to back, carinated above the brim, the rim flanged, with a lozenge-shaped attachment at the side looped to a ring (one preserved), a perforation along the rim below, ornamented at the crown with two ribbed tubes for plumes, and two Acheloös head appliqués with projecting floral finials, perhaps for securing a crest; and the breast and backplate of a corslet, each formed of three encircled convex disks, one with a cut-out plaque riveted to the upper edge with incised and punched wave, with two wide hinges for the shoulder straps, one partially preserved, two small hinges at the sides below, the other with perforations along the upper border and loops at the sides
Helmet: 9 in. (22.9 cm.) high
CIRCA 500-450 B.C.
All of hammered sheet, comprising a Negau type helmet, the high-domed crown with a median ridge running front to back, carinated above the brim, the rim flanged, with a lozenge-shaped attachment at the side looped to a ring (one preserved), a perforation along the rim below, ornamented at the crown with two ribbed tubes for plumes, and two Acheloös head appliqués with projecting floral finials, perhaps for securing a crest; and the breast and backplate of a corslet, each formed of three encircled convex disks, one with a cut-out plaque riveted to the upper edge with incised and punched wave, with two wide hinges for the shoulder straps, one partially preserved, two small hinges at the sides below, the other with perforations along the upper border and loops at the sides
Helmet: 9 in. (22.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, Cologne, 1974.
with Helmut Liebert Antiquitäten, Krefeld, Germany.
with Helmut Liebert Antiquitäten, Krefeld, Germany.
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