A GREEK BRONZE ILLYRIAN HELMET
A GREEK BRONZE ILLYRIAN HELMET
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A GREEK BRONZE ILLYRIAN HELMET

ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA FIRST HALF OF THE 6TH CENTURY B.C.

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A GREEK BRONZE ILLYRIAN HELMET
ARCHAIC PERIOD, CIRCA FIRST HALF OF THE 6TH CENTURY B.C.
Hammered from a single sheet, of domed form, with two pairs of raised parallel ridges running front to back across the crown, a raised ridge around the perimeter with evenly-spaced rivets along the edge, each cheek-guard perforated at the forward tip, with incised ornament decorating the brow, centered by a Gorgoneion flanked by sphinxes, her heart-shaped face with articulated almond-shaped eyes, a bulbous nose and a smiling oversized mouth, the tongue lolling, her prominent ears visible amidst her comma-shaped locks, with a long pointed beard, the sphinxes seated in profile, facing each other, each with one leg advanced, the upright tail curving out at the tip, with a fanning sickle-shaped wing, each surmounted by a crosshatched polos; an ancient repair to the proper left corner of the helmet brow
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high
來源
with Fortuna Fine Arts, New York, 1983.
Private Collection, New York.
with Ariadne Galleries, New York, 2000.
with Alexander Gallery, New York, 2006.
with Rupert Wace, London, 2013.

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Molly Morse Limmer
Molly Morse Limmer

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According to Connolly (Greece and Rome at War, p. 60), early Illyrian helmets were derived from the Iron-Age Kegelhelm and are the first of their type to have crested ridges rather than the high crest of the Insular helmet, which had been popular in Crete through the end of the 7th century B.C. While earlier forms were fashioned from two halves and riveted together along the interior, later examples are formed of a single sheet, as here. For a similar example from Olympia, see no. 4, op. cit.
Engraved decoration on Illyrian helmets is rare. See, for example, an Illyrian helmet with lions above the brow, p. 61, nos. 17-18 in Bottini, et al., Antike Helme. For confronting sphinxes, somewhat earlier in date, compare a bronze mitra (belly guard), no. 38 in Picón, et al., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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