Window into the Bible
Helmets
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Gold Helmet
Date:2550 – 2450 BC.
Place: Tomb of Queen Puabi, Ur [Iraq]
Photographed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Boar’s Tusk Helmet
Date: 14th – 13th century BC
Place: From Sparta Tomb, Attica [Greece]
Photographed at the National Archeological Museum of Athens, Athens, Greece.
A boar’s tusk helmet is mentioned in Homer’s Iliad.
Urartian Bronze Helmet
Date: 9th – 8th century BC.
Place: Probably North West Iran
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
Assyrian Helmet
Date: 8th century BC.
Place: Urartian [Iraq]
Photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA.
He (God) put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head; he put on the garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak. (Isaiah 59:17)
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Bronze Corinthian Helmet
Date: 7th – 6th century BC Place: Unknown
Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA. |
Apulo-Corinthian Helmet
Date: 6th – 5th century BC.
Place: Greece
Photographed at the British Museum, London, England.
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Cypriot Helmet
Date: 600 BC Place: Grave 11 of the Royal Necropolis, Tamassos, Nikosia, Cyprus
Photographed at the Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany. |
Etruscan Helmet
Date: 6th century BC.
Place: Italy
Photographed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Etruscan Helmet
Date: 4th century BC.
Place: Italy
Photographed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Bronze Helmet
Date: Style used from c. 800 BC. – 100 AD. Place: Corinth |
Photographed at the Corinthian museum, Corinth, Greece.
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Marble Bust of Pericles with Corinthian Helmet
Date: Roman copy of an original from 450 BC Place: Found in Lesbos [Greece] |
Photographed at the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Head of Athena Wearing Corinthian Helmet (on modern bust)
Date: Roman Copy of original from 400’s BC.
Place: Italy
Photographed at the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Parthian Helmet
Date: 249 BC. – 224 AD.
Place: Parthia [Iran, Eastern Turkey]
Photographed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA.