Two sheet silver embossed plaques for a pseudo attic helmet each with shaped edges embossed around the edges with a double pearled ornament with fixing holes.
Pseudo attic helmet.
A part of this had to do with how romans and especially their praetorian guard was depicted with the stylized attic helmet variant with engravings and plumes.
Terms such as illyrian and attic are used in archaeology for convenience to denote a particular type of helmet and do not imply its origin.
Roman pseudo attic helmet 2nd century ad.
Pseudo certosa fibula 25 00.
On the other hand the attic helmet was somewhat popular in italy at least as motifs and more so during the roman era.
As an artistic motif variations of the attic helmet long outlasted other contemporary helmet types being used to impart an archaic look to depictions of generals emperors and praetorians throughout the hellenistic and roman periods.
This is a particular type of attic helmet widespread among the hellenistic armies of the whole mediterranean including rome in use between the fourth and second century bc.
As such a form of attic helmet has become part of the popular image of a roman officer as found in art from the.
As an artistic motif variations of the attic helmet long outlasted other contemporary helmet types being used to impart an archaic look to depictions of generals emperors and praetorians throughout the hellenistic and roman periods as such a form of attic helmet has become part of the popular image of a roman officer as found in art from the.
The bust of jupiter is represented on both plaques at the centre of the diadem frontally with long.
Roman pseudo attic helmet dating from circa 2nd century ad.
The decoration of both plaques seems to represent a cult scene most probably to jupiter and epona in one plaque to jupiter alone.