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A rare and important Ibero-Celtic bronze helmet, composed of four sections
which are riveted together. Each section is framed by a double line.
In the forehead above the corners and neck circular protuberances.
Those in front are decorated with stylized brows, and those at the back
with a frieze of vertical sticks. Complete, in some parts reinforced internally.
h. 33 cm, diam. 22 cm., c. 5th ctry. B.C.
25500 EUR
Ex collection Dr. J. T., Germany, ex: Jean-David Cahn Auction 5, Lot 100.
An extremely rare type of helmet, only a few examples are known, generally only fractions of it.
Half a specimen in Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz / Germany: M Egg, Ch. Pare:
Die Metallzeiten in Europa und im vorderen Orient (Mainz, 1995), p. 228f. Nr. 19, Taf. 80,1.
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