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LOT 0739

Sold for (Inc. bp): £19,360

GREEK BRONZE CORINTHIAN HELMET
ARCHAIC PERIOD, LATE 7TH CENTURY BC
8 1/4" (1.7 kg, 21.5cm high).

A greek bronze helmet hammered from a single heavy sheet, of domed form, with a flaring neck-guard, elongated almond-shaped eye holes, and a protruding nose-guard rounded at the tip, perforated along the perimeter with eight pins preserved; ancient repair to the guard after battle damage.

PROVENANCE:
Ex Frank Sternburg gallery, Zurich, Switzerland; acquired in the early 1990s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Born H. and Hansen S. Helme und Waffen Alteuropas: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, IX, Mainz, 2001, p.178, pl.137 (AG 505).

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