Boeotian helmet

The Boeotian helmet was on the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, a common type of helmet. It was used mainly by the Greek and Macedonian cavalry.

Description

Xenophon recommends that the Boeotian helmet because of the good all-round visibility explicitly as cavalry equipment. The helmet was rarely used by the infantry, above all in the eponymous with Boeotia Thebes.

This bronze helmet type is reminiscent of a hat with folded brim. Painted, engraved and fitted with horse-tails copies are handed down from Hellenistic pictorial sources. Known representations can be found on the Alexander Sarcophagus and on coins. A late presentation can be found on a coin of the last Greco -Bactrian king Hermaios.