Found: Ancient Warrior's Helmet, Owner Unknown (Greek Mercenary Helmet, Circa 600 B.C.)

Live Science ^ | 28 February 2012 | Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor

[JerseyHighlander]

The helmets at the Metropolitan Museum are full size replicas. PUGACHEV’s comment got a chuckle out of me, I remember going to the Met as a kid and thinking the same thing, ‘wtf I wouldn’t even fit in this helmet.’

[ZULU]

Then again, look at any pre-World War I military arm....

Your right - the Brown Bess is a beautiful weapon.

But so is the 1903A3 in its own right, as well as the Garand
:)

I know as I have all three.

[Beowulf9]

So would this have belonged to a Spartan?

“Throughout their adult lives, the Spartiates continued to be subject to a training regime so strict that, as Plutarch says, “... they were the only men in the world with whom war brought a respite in the training for war.”

Bravery was the ultimate virtue for the Spartans: Spartan mothers would give their sons the shield with the words “Return With it or carried on it!”

Was just thinking, what an amazing warrior wore that helmet, Spartan or not. Be interesting to know his tale.

[robowombat]

More likely the helmet came from a Carian mercenary. There are a number of references to Carians in the historical books of the OT. Moreover, the Carians seem to have had a significant role in developing the armored warrior who became the hoplite over time. Caria was a mountainous area but located on the sea routes along the Mediterranean. The area apparently had metal deposits and was one where smithing evolved to a high art.

[Beowulf9]

A hoplite. So interesting. Just don’t know enough about this time, but I should read more.

Whenever it seems I cannot do something, achieve something, I think of these sorts of men who were about, mostly because my grandfather told me and my own father told me the tales of their bravery and strength.

What can be achieved with good leadership. What men CAN be.

“The area apparently had metal deposits and was one where smithing evolved to a high art.”

Even the smithy strove for his best. I expect partially because he was inspired by them. Beautiful work on that helmet.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 02/28/2012. Thanks again DogByte6RER.

A Greek bronze helmet, covered with gold leaf and decorated with snakes, lions and a peacock's tail (or palmette), has been discovered in the waters of Haifa Bay in Israel... dates back around 2,600 years and likely belonged to a wealthy Greek mercenary who took part in a series of wars, immortalized in the Bible, which ravaged the region at that time. Archaeologists believe that he likely fought for an Egyptian pharaoh named Necho II.

One of *those* topics.

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