Montefortino-type helmet

Classification

helmet

Culture

prae-Roman Italian

Dimensions

height: 23.6 cm

Date

mid-3rd century B.C.

Period

Hellenistic Period (Italy, 3rd–1st centuries); Etruscan Hellenistic Period (3th–1st centuries); Roman Republic

Material

bronze

Iconography

egg-and-dart motif ; notched decoration

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Hungarian National Museum

Inventory

56.57.A

ID

Hyp-4460

References

Szilágyi, J. Gy., Antik Gyűjtemény, 132; Szilágyi, J. Gy., Ancient Art, 150–151; Welt der Etrusker, 200, no. B 7.66; Mazzoli–Naso, in BullMusHong 112–113 (2010), 55–58, 223–225, no. 4

Trails

Roman warfare