Man with helmet - image 1

Archaic I

Man with helmet

Man with a helmet The head of a young, unfavorable warrior comes from a votive statuette.The lips still show remnants of red painting.On the head, the young man wears a conical helmet with high -beaten ear flaps.The limestone head repeats a type that is also popular in terracotta plastic, of which in Stein numerous copies from the 6th and early 5th centuries BC.BC have been preserved.Bernhard-Walcher u.Collection catalogs of the KHM Vol. 2, Vienna: 1999 L/H 10,5 cm

Date

650 - 600 BC

Accession No.

Antikensammlung, I 631

Collection

Vienna Museum

Provenance

  • Millosicz, Georg von, Vienna;1890 purchase from a discount