Details

LOT 0306

Greek Illyrian Helmet

7TH-6TH CENTURY BC

11" (874 grams, 28cm).

A bronze helmet of Illyrian type with rounded skull, flared rear edge, corrugated bands to the crown, D-shaped cheek guards pierced at the apex, separate plume-holders to the brow and rear.

Provenance

Property of North London collector; acquired from Germany in the early 1980s.

Published

Supplied with a copy of the article Ancient Greek Artifacts, in Pariakai, a London-based Greek Cypriot newspaper, dated 11th October 2007.

Literature

Exhibited at Bruce Castle Museum, London, 16th-31st July 2011 in The Festival of British Archaeology, with photographs of the display and captions and the museum agreement.

CONDITION