CIRCA 500-450 B.C

Details

AN ETRUSCAN BRONZE NEGAU HELMET
CIRCA 500-450 B.C
8 ½ in. (21.6 cm.) high

Provenance

with Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles.
Jay C. Leff (1925-2000), Uniontown, PA.
Antiquities, Parke-Bernet, New York, 4 December 1969, lot 130.
Marilyn Kaytor (1929-2007), New York.
Art Market, New York.
Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 4 June 2008, lot 227.
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, p. 186, fig. 9.

Exhibited

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA23).

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Lot Essay

The Negau helmet takes its name from the town of Zenjak, near Negau in Slovenia, where a large cache of helmets were found in 1812 (see P. Reinecke, “Der Negauer Helmfund,” in Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, vol. 32, 1942, pp. 117-98). This example, typical of the group, is of hammered sheet, with a median ridge running front to back along the high dome. Above the projecting, vertical flanged rim is a horizontal carinated ridge. At opposing sides there are perforations for the attachment of now-missing cheek-pieces.

For a similar example in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, see S. Goldstein, "An Etruscan Helmet in the McDaniel Collection," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. 72, pp. 383-390.

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