拍品专文
This elegant example features a carinated ridge around the spherical dome rising to a peak above the forehead and three tubular plume-holders attached to the crown. Noticeably absent from this South Italian type is the nose-guard. It features hinged cheek- guards and large ear-openings.
Feathers were popular embellishments on Chalcidian helmets, intended to intimidate enemies and show an association with Ares, the god of war, who is often depicted wearing a crested helmet. Both Livy and Polybius make reference to aigrettes (horsehair crests and/or feathers) and their ability to create fear in battle (see pp. 218-221 in Burns, op. cit.). This type of helmet occurs frequently on South Italian vases, as seen worn by an Italic warrior on a Campanian hydria (no. 92 in M. Mayo, ed., The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia). For a nearly identical helmet also once in the collection of Axel Guttmann, see no. X356 in Hixenbaugh, op. cit.
Feathers were popular embellishments on Chalcidian helmets, intended to intimidate enemies and show an association with Ares, the god of war, who is often depicted wearing a crested helmet. Both Livy and Polybius make reference to aigrettes (horsehair crests and/or feathers) and their ability to create fear in battle (see pp. 218-221 in Burns, op. cit.). This type of helmet occurs frequently on South Italian vases, as seen worn by an Italic warrior on a Campanian hydria (no. 92 in M. Mayo, ed., The Art of South Italy: Vases from Magna Graecia). For a nearly identical helmet also once in the collection of Axel Guttmann, see no. X356 in Hixenbaugh, op. cit.