Subject: ὁπλίτης heavy infantry hoplite

Culture: Classical Greek

Setting: late Archaic, Persian wars, Aegean 7th-5thc BC

Object: Illyrian helmet

* Royal Ontario Museum > Gallery of the Bronze Age Aegean *

"'ILLYRIAN' HELMET -- BATTLE OF PLATAIA

Beaten from a single sheet of bronze, with

hammered out (repousse) ridges along the top.

A type found in mainland Greece and Yugoslavia.

Reportedly found at the battlefield of Plataia, 479 BC.

Bronze. 6th to early 5th century BC."

* Harwood International > Samurai Collection

"Illyrian helmet

c. 7th - early 6th century B.C.

Bronze" ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art *

"Bronze helmet of Illyrian type Greek, early 5th century B.C.

In the Illyrian helmet, the opening for the face is rectilinear,

with a horizontal line at the forehead and

two verticals at the inner edges of the cheekpieces.

Two parallel ridges on the crown frame the crest."

* Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Bronze helmet of the Illyrian type

Greek, late 6th-early 5th century B.C.

Said to be from the Argolid, Greece"