MAGNA GRAECIA, LATE CLASSICAL TO EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 350-250 B.C.

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A GREEK BRONZE WARRIOR'S PANOPLY
MAGNA GRAECIA, LATE CLASSICAL TO EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 350-250 B.C.
Helmet: 11 ¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high; breast-plate: 15 ½ in. (39.3 cm.) high; back-plate: 16 3⁄8 in. (41.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin (Inv. no. AG460a/H151 (helmet), AG602/R136a,b (breast- and back-plate)).
Antiken der Sammlung Axel Guttman, Auktion 57, Hermann Historica, Munich, 22 April 2009, lot 313.
Acquired by the current owner from the above.

Literature

M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria," in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, pp. 219, 231, figs. 109, 132.
R. Hixenbaugh, Ancient Greek Helmets: A Complete Guide and Catalog, New York, 2019, p. 491, no. X357.

Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA265a-c).

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Lot Essay

Included in this panoply is a Chalcidian helmet and an anatomical cuirass. The helmet features a carinated ridge around the rounded dome, rising to a peak above the forehead, horn-shaped eyebrows in raised relief and hinged cheek-pieces. The cuirass is formed of a breast- and backplate, originally joined by hinges, and modelled in the form of a muscular male torso.

For a similar anatomical cuirass with a wave pattern along its hinge-plates, found in Bari and thought to be Samnite in origin, see no. 7, p. 112 in P. Connelly, Greece and Rome at War.

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