Conical/Pilos Helmets

Conical/Pilos helmets:
There is no clear, universally accepted terminology for these types of helmets (as is the case with most "types").

Pilos-type, of unknown provenance, 4th c. BC? The body is raised from a single piece of bronze. There is a ring at the apex for attaching a crest (and/or for hanging storage -- see below) in addition to the spiral feather tubes. Hermann Historica Auctions.

Helmet from Canosa, now in Karlsruhe. 5th-3rd c. BC. Photographs from ArtServe.

ca. 325 BC? British Museum.

Pilos or conical helmet in the Louvre.

A conical helmet, on a volute crater by the Ganymede Painter (330-320 BC). Now in Basel.

Helmet with crest and cheek pieces, on an olla by the Baltimore Painter (330-320 BC). Now in Geneva.

Helmet on a volute crater by the Painter of Copenhagen 4223 (340 BC). From Ginosa, tomb no.1 on the via Salento. Now in Taranto, Museo Arch.Naz. 51010.

Crested helmet on a volute crater by the Oltretomba Painter (330-320 BC), from Canosa.

Helmet on a South Italian loutrophoros, in the Karlsruhe Museum. Photographs from ArtServe.

Pilos helmet with rim from Sicily, 6-5th c. BC. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. Photo courtesy of Volker Bach.

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