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An Illyrian helmet in the British Museum
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- Journal:
- Annual of the British School at Athens / Volume 87 / November 1992
- Published online by Cambridge University Press:
- 12 June 2012, pp. 281-291
- Print publication:
- November 1992
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Recent research on a helmet of Illyrian type, found in the River Alpheios and purchased by the British Museum in 1914, has yielded interesting historical, epigraphical, and technological information. The helmet was made between about 550 and 525 BC, and it was probably dedicated to Olympian Zeus in the latter years of the century; it was embellished with various types of silver decoration, notably appliqués of horsemen on the cheek-pieces. The inscription, incised in unusual herring-bone fashion, indicates that the helmet was dedicated by the Koroneans, and the event commemorated by the dedication is here considered.
