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." ...
