Subject: cavalry warrior
Culture: Urartian
Setting: Armenia 9-8thcBC
Object: helmet
Museum of Fine Arts > Art of the Ancient World > Ancient Near East *
"Helmet Urartian, 8th century B.C. Helmets of this type were worn by the Assyrians
and some of their neighbors from the tenth to the late seventh centuries B.C.;
examples are illustrated in the relief sculptures above.
This helmet bears an insignia peculiar to those excavated
at the Urartian citadel at Karmir-Blur, near Yerevan, capital of Armenia." ...
