Helmet - Catalog No. 48

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Record details

Catalog No.
48
Material
Bronze
Origin
Mezőkövesd, Hungary
Date Range
1000-900 BC
Height (cm)
23.6
Diameter (cm)
22.9
Inventory Number
1960.2.2
Current Location
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Bibliography

Patay 1969:173–74, Figures 1, 8, Plate 43:2; Hencken 1971:44–45, Figure 21:a; Mozsolics 2000:55–56, Plate 52:3; Mödlinger 2013:174, catalog no. 6, Figures 1:2, 12.

Recommended citation

Gyucha, Attila and William A. Parkinson, 2023. Helmet - Catalog No. 48 for First Kings of Europe: Exhibition Catalog. Version 1. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. https://doi.org/10.25346/S6/CUQX46

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This bronze helmet was part of an elite warrior hoard deposited in a large ceramic vessel. It was placed in a situla (bucket-shaped vessel), covered with a cauldron, along with two arm spirals. The helmet’s body was embossed from a flat disc, and cast-on technology was used to produce the knob. It is a thick and quite efficient piece of armor that was fixed onto an organic padding with rivets. A total of fifteen similar objects have been recovered mainly from their presumed production center in the northeastern Carpathian Basin.

János Gábor Tarbay