CIRCA 500-450 B.C

The Negau helmet takes its name from the town of Zenjak, near Negau in Slovenia, where a large cache of helmets were found in 1812 (see P. Reinecke, “Der Negauer Helmfund,” in Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission, vol. 32, 1942, pp. 117-98). This example, typical of the group, is of hammered sheet, with a median ridge running front to back along the high dome. Above the projecting, vertical flanged rim is a horizontal carinated ridge. At opposing sides there are perforations for the attachment of now-missing cheek-pieces.

For a similar example in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, see S. Goldstein, "An Etruscan Helmet in the McDaniel Collection," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. 72, pp. 383-390.