Corinthian helmets from Italy


Bronze Corinthian helmet, ca. 600 BC. Italy. University Museum, Philadelphia (MS 1608).


Corinthian helmet in the Karlsruhe Museum. ca. 600-570 BC. Italy. Photos from ArtServe


Corinthian helmet from Taranto (Gk. Taras, Lat. Tarentum), 600-550 BC.


Bronze 'Piceno-Corinthian' Helmet, ca. 550 BC. From Asculum (Ascoli Piceno), Tomb of the Warrior. This variation does not expose the mouth. The nose-piece is alien. University Museum, Philadelphia (MS 1534).

Piceno-Corinthian Helmet from
the Campovalano di Campli
Necropolis near Asculum. In the
Museo Archeologico Nazionale
dell'Abruzzo in Chieti.

Helmet from Armento. 4th c.BC.????
This helmet was lined with soft leather
and fabric. National Museum of Antiquities,
Leiden (no. H III TTTT 1 b).

Italy, ca. 500-490 BC. Staatliches
Antikensammlungen, Munich.


Later Corinthian helmet. Italy?

Bronze crest for
a Corinthian helmet.

Corinthian helmet with sheet bronze horns. ca. 650 BC. Perhaps from Taranto. Now in tbe Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva.

Sheet bronze horns for a Corinthian helmet, 7th c. BC. Compare the two following tomb-paintings:

Horseman from a painted tomb at Nola; now in the Naples Museum. A Montefortino-type helmet with horns.

Painted horseman wearing an Attic-type helmet, from a tomb at Capua; now in Naples.