Bronze domed helmet surmounted by a knob. Decorated with punched bands of stylised boars' tusks and spirals
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Details
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Title
Bronze domed helmet surmounted by a knob. Decorated with punched bands of stylised boars' tusks and spirals
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Associated place
Greece (place of creation) -
Date
1400 BC - 1300 BC
Bronze Age (Aegean) (3200 - 1000 BC) -
Material and technique
copper alloy
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.8 cm (height)
21 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Malcolm H. Wiener FSA, in honour of Dr Christopher Brown CBE, Director of the Ashmolean Museum, 1998-2014, and of pre-eminent Aegean archaeologist Sinclair Hood and the late Rachel Hood, longstanding memers of the Aegean archaeology community in Oxford and throughout the world, 2015.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 20 | Aegean World -
Museum department
Antiquities
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Accession no.
AN2015.5
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Further reading
Buchholz, Hans-Günter, Matthäus, Hartmut and Wiener, Malcolm, ‘Helme mit Berücksichtigung eines unbekannten altägäischen Bronzehelms’, Hans-Günter Buchholz, Kriegswesen, 3: Ergänzungen und Zusammenfassung, Archaeologia Homerica (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010)
M. Mödlinger, ‘From Greek Boar's‐Tusk Helmets to the First European Metal Helmets: New Approaches on Development and Chronology’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 32 (4), (2013), no. 1, pp. 401-403, fig. 5
