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拍品專文
This elegant helmet is formed of hammered sheet with a wide flaring neck-guard. It is ornamented with two raised parallel ridges running across the crown with a rivet above the forehead and a partially-preserved one at the back for the attachment of a separately-made crest. Between the ridges are three incised lines that terminate in a floral motif at the frontal rivet. Along the perimeter of the helmet are small circular incisions, which Hixenbaugh (op. cit.) refers to as a “pseudo-rivet.” Above the brow are incised tongues.
According to Hixenbaugh (op. cit., p. 134), this helmet belongs to a grouping which “appears to be the Classical zenith of the Illyrian form. There is a clear uniformity of design, proportion, and craftsmanship across dozens of extant helmets, suggesting that their manufacture lies in a single workshop in a major city with only few periphery copies and adaptations.” For a similar example formerly in the Axel Guttmann collection, see pl. XLIV in Die Ritter: Burgenländische Landesausstellung 1990.
According to Hixenbaugh (op. cit., p. 134), this helmet belongs to a grouping which “appears to be the Classical zenith of the Illyrian form. There is a clear uniformity of design, proportion, and craftsmanship across dozens of extant helmets, suggesting that their manufacture lies in a single workshop in a major city with only few periphery copies and adaptations.” For a similar example formerly in the Axel Guttmann collection, see pl. XLIV in Die Ritter: Burgenländische Landesausstellung 1990.