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Phrygian helmet

Phrygian helmet from the Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins; the front of the skull is ornamented with an appliqué head of the goddess Athena, the helmet is missing its original cheekpieces.[1]

The Phrygian helmet, also known as the Thracian helmet,[2] was a type of helmet that originated in ancient Greece, towards the close of the classical period and was used throughout the Hellenistic world until well into the period of the Roman Republic.[3] Widely used by Greek, Macedonian, Diadochi, Italic peoples, Etruscans, Thracian, Phrygian and Dacian warriors throughout the Hellenistic and Roman republican period and by some ethnicities into Roman imperial times .[4]

  1. ^ Merrony 2011, p. 211, fig. 112.
  2. ^ Wilcox & Embleton 1982, p. 16
  3. ^ Sekunda & McBride 1984, p. 6.
  4. ^ James Ashley (2004). The Macedonian Empire: The Era of Warfare Under Philip II and Alexander the Great, 359-323 B.C. McFarland. pp. 34, 46. ISBN 978-0786419180.

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