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Historical Archive: Helmets through the twelfth century Representations follow surviving examples. helmet: Amazon(?) parade mask from Nola tomb, bronze, 2nd c. CE, BM 1824,0407.10 Roman gemmed parade helmet from Budapest, HNM. For detail and another view, see HNM. Coppergate helmet, iron and copper alloy, 2nd half of 8th c., York Castle Museum CA 665. For details see York. helmet fr. Gjermundbu Farm, iron, c.950-1000, OHM C27317. For game pieces from same grave see OHM. Standard of Ur, lapis lazuli, shell, and red limestone, c. 2600-2400 BCE, BM ME 121201. This work has its own page. Stele of Naram-Sin, pink limestone, 2254-2218 BCE, Louvre. For overall view and a different type helmet see Louvre. Exekias, black-figure amphora from Vulci with Ajax and Achilles playing dice, c.540-30 BCE, Vat 16757. This work has its own page. warrior, bronze, 5th c. BCE Umbria, ANAM. For other views see ANAM. birth of Athena, Etrusco-Italic bronze mirror back fr. Arezzo, 330-310 BCE, Bologna IT 1073. For full work see Bologna. Gonzaga cameo, agate: 2 rulers, 3rd c. BCE or 1st c. BCE/CE, Hermitage ГP-19076, which has its own page Vienna Gonzaga cameo: Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Arsinoë II, agate, 278-69 BCE, setting with enamel 1575-1600, KHM IXa 81 Hellenistic carnelian intaglio Athena and Nike, gold/garnet/crystal/glass brooch, late 2nd-early 1st c. BCE, northeastern Black Sea, Morgan 2012.2:14 Etruscan cinerary urn: Kadmos and dragon, alabaster, 2nd c. BCE, KHM I 1040a. For other views see KHM. mythological phalera with Athena, c.200-100 BCE, Severskaya, Kuban region, MSHM cinerary urn with Eteocles and Polynices from Villa della Piene, ceramic with gesso and paint, Etruscan c.150 BCE, KM 0000.00.2608 Minerva, 25-1 BCE, sardonyx, Florence MA 14841. For modern impression see Florence MA. denarius of Julius Caesar, 48-47 BCE, MNW 219169 rev Medici cameo: emperor (Claudius Gothicus or Antoninus Pius?) with genius, sacrificing poss. to Hope, 1st-3rd c., sardonyx cameo in gilded metal, Florence MA 14443. This work has its own page. helmeted trophy: Augustus of Prima Porta, marble, early 1st c. CE, Vat MV.2290.0.0, which has its own page Gemma Augustea, banded agate cameo, 9/10-12 CE, KHM ANSA IXa 79. This work has its own page. Perseus killing Medusa, marble mythological sarcophagus, Pécs-Aranyhegy (Hungary) mid 2nd c., HNM 62.84.1 copper alloy coin of Constantine I, obverse: Roma, Cyzicus c.295, UCh 1980.157.39. For reverse see UCh. Porphyry sarcophagus of Helena (d. c.330), 1st third of 4th c., Vat 238. This work has its own page. Roma seated with Victory, Roman niccolo agate intaglio c.330 CE, CdM Chab. 2071 Passion sarcophagus, marble, c.350 CE, Vat 31525. This work has its own page. Passion/tree sarcophagus: Cain and Abel, arrest of Peter, triumphant cross, arrest of Paul, Job; marble, Rome c.360, Vat 28591. For other views see Vatican Museums. solidus of Honorius, gold, 384-423, DO. For full obverse and reverse with another helmet see DO coins. life of Dionysus, ivory pyxis, 5th c., Bologna pcr 12, which has its own page Rome, ivory, 5th-6th c., KHM X 38, which has its own page with companion panel buckle, belt of St. Caesarius, ivory, early 6th c., Arles. This work has its own page. solidus of Justinian I, gold, 527-65, DO BZC. For detail see DO coins. Theodahad (534-36) Ostrogothic copper 10 nummi, obverse, Hermitage OH-З-91831. For same ruler's reverse see Hermitage. Theudebert I (Frankish king 534-48), gold solidus, SMBMünz 18202273 Baduila (Totila, 541-52), Ostrogothic copper 10 nummi, reverse: Totila, Hermitage OH-З-115056. For same ruler's obverse see Hermitage. Cathedra of Maximian, ivory, 546-56, RavArchMus, which has its own page with more helmets David and Goliath, Constantinople 629–30, Met 17.190.396, which has its own page helmet? Wamba (672-80), gold Visigothic tremissis, obverse, Hermitage. For same ruler's reverse see Hermitage. flask, Nagyszentmiklós treasure, gold, 700-750?, KHM VIIb. For more views and companion works see Nagyszentmiklós. Meeting Abner and Joab at Lake Gabaon, ivory c.870, Louvre MR 374 Basilewsky Situla, ivory, 980-81, V&A A.18-1933. This work has its own page. Rosette Casket, wood/ivory/bone, Italo-Byzantine, 11th-12th c., Arezzo MS, which has its own page Abdinghof portable altar, 1115-30, DMP PR50, which has its own page Seal of William, count of Nevers (modern cast), 1140. AN D859 Seal of Raoul, count of Vermandois (modern cast), c. 1146. AN D1010 Stavelot altar, gilt bronze with enamel and rock crystal, c.1150-60, MRAH 1590. This work has its own page with additional examples. ivory cross, c.1150-60, Cloisters 63.12, which has its own page. Novgorod cathedral doors, bronze, prob. 1152-54. The doors have their own page with more helmets. Stavelot Triptych, Mosan, c.1156-58, Morgan AZ001, which has its own page. bracteate of Margrave Otto I, Brandenburg 1170-84, MNW NPO 3383 Seal of Pierre de Courtenai (modern cast), count of Nevers, 1184. AN D863 Mina'i ware beaker with Shahnama story, Iran late 12th c., Freer F1928.2. This work has its own page. portal from Hylestad stave church, late 12th-early 13th c., OHM C4321, which has its own page candle-stick in the form of a mounted knight, Lotharingia? late 12th c., KGM 85.56. For another view see KGM. related: man's headdress in helmet form, 8th c. silk/linen/wood/leather, Hermitage КЗ-4576, fr. Moshchevaya Balka, which has its own page with details