![]() ![]() The crest is richly adorned on both sides with rows of dots and knobs of various sizes, which come together at the top, leaving a triangle at the center of the crest, just at the apex of the crown. It is also far more elaborately ornamented than any example previously published. In height and diameter, the helmet in the Mediterranean Section towers above all previously known specimens. Examples of these covers can be seen in the Villa Giulia Museum in Rome. It is interesting to note, speaking of pottery, that ancient clay copies of these helmets have been discovered, which were apparently used as covers for cinerary urns. This is further confirmed by the pottery and other objects associated with them, which shows the primitive state of culture of the people in whose tombs they are found. The fact that helmets like this have been found in deposits of the so-called “Villanuova” period, which is Italic, and pre-Etruscan, and that their provenance is not confined to Etruria, marks them as of a civilization that existed in Italy at a very early date, perhaps anterior to the seventh century B.C. ![]() It will be profitable to study it, and see in what respects it resembles, if at all, the armor lately worn by the different belligerent nations.īy far the most interesting object of the collection is a helmet, found in the tomb of a warrior, that was excavated for the Museum at Narce in Etruria, in 1896 (Fig. Some of it is indigenous to the soil on which it was found some of it was imported from other parts of the ancient world. In the Mediterranean Section of the Museum there has been for a long time on exhibition a collection of ancient armor from Italy. It is, therefore, worth while to study the prototypes of these defensive weapons. Experts in the history of arms and armor were called into consultation, to devise protection, by means of helmets and body armor, for the heads and bodies of storm troops. Much was said of the helmets worn by the French and Germans, and of the “tin derbies” popular with the British and American troops, as being veritable reversions to a bygone period. During the war it was a commonplace subject of conversation, and of articles in the newspapers and magazines, that for defence the soldiers of the different belligerent nations were reverting to the ages of the past. ![]()
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