LATE ARCHAIC TO EARLY CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 500-400 B.C.

Details

A GREEK BRONZE CHALCIDIAN HELMET
LATE ARCHAIC TO EARLY CLASSICAL PERIOD, CIRCA 500-400 B.C.
10 ½ in. (26.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Axel Guttmann (1944-2001), Berlin, acquired in Munich, 1992 (Inv. no. H325).
The Art of Warfare: The Axel Guttmann Collection, Part 1, Christie's, London, 6 November 2002, lot 58.
Antiken der Sammlung Axel Guttmann, Auktion 58, Hermann Historica, Munich, 7 October 2009, lot 174.
Christian Levett, London, acquired from the above on behalf of the Mougins Museum of Classical Art.

Literature

M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria," in M. Merrony, ed., Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Mougins, 2011, p. 202, fig. 63.
R. Hixenbaugh, Ancient Greek Helmets: A Complete Guide and Catalog, New York, 2019, p. 457, no. X82.

Exhibited

Mougins Museum of Classical Art, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA503).

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Lot Essay

This helmet is formed of hammered sheet and has a carinated ridge around the dome that peaks above the forehead where it merges with the median ridge. It also features a short neck-guard, a nose-guard and forward-curving, crescentic cheek-guards. Around the perimeter are the remnants of a now-missing decorative border. For a nearly identical example, see no. X84 in Hixenbaugh, op. cit.

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