Lot 26
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A GREEK BRONZE CHALCIDIAN HELMET
A GREEK BRONZE CHALCIDIAN HELMET
A GREEK BRONZE CHALCIDIAN HELMET
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A GREEK BRONZE CHALCIDIAN HELMET

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

Details
A GREEK BRONZE CHALCIDIAN HELMET
MAGNA GRAECIA, LATE CLASSICAL PERIOD TO HELLENISTIC PERIOD, CIRCA 350-250 B.C.
11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Said to be Comte de Bressac Collection, France, and sold in London after 1918.
Art Market, Germany.
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 7 November 2001, lot 285.
Literature
R. Hixenbaugh, Ancient Greek Helmets: A Complete Guide and Catalog, New York, 2019, p. 489, no. X337.

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Lot Essay

This helmet features a spherical dome and hinged cheek-guards. As P. Connolly observes (pp. 61-62 in Greece and Rome at War), this variation of the Chalcidian type is often referred to as an “Attic helmet,” even though there “are no Greek examples of this type; practically all the survivals come from Italy where it was very popular.”

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