theancientwayoflife: ~ Bronze helmet. Date: ca. 474 B.C. Place...

theancientwayoflife:

~ Bronze helmet.
Date: ca. 474 B.C.
Place of discovery: Olympia, Greece
Place of origin: Etruria, Italy

• From the source: Bronze Etruscan helmet of the Negau type with an inscribed text in the Syracusan Greek alphabet; domed body made of hammered sheet bronze, lower part concave, with a small lip around the bottom edge; the inscription translates ‘Hieron, son of Deinomenes, and the Syracusans, [dedicated] to Zeus Etruscan [spoils] from Cumae’: the object is believed to have been captured at the battle of Cumae in 474 B.C. and deposited in the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia as a dedication to the god.