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Cellini's Perseus (1545–54), wearing the Cap of Invisibility and carrying the head of Medusa. In classical mythology, the Cap of Invisibility (Ἅϊδος κυνέη (H)aïdos kyneē in Greek, lit. dog-skin of Hades) is a helmet or cap that can turn the wearer invisible, [1] also known as the Cap of Hades or Helm of Hades. [2]
A cervelliere (cervelière, cervelliera; [1] Latin: cervellerium, [2] cerebrarium, [3] cerebrerium, cerebotarium [4]) is a hemispherical, close-fitting [5] skull cap of steel or iron. [3] It was worn as a helmet during the medieval period and a version known as a secret was worn under felt hats during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the early ...
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Bascinet without accessories. The bascinet – also bassinet, basinet, or bazineto – was a Medieval European open-faced combat helmet.It evolved from a type of iron or steel skullcap, but had a more pointed apex to the skull, and it extended downwards at the rear and sides to afford protection for the neck.
The Nemiya Helmet on the exhibition of the Déri Museum in 2022 with a 10th-century iron helmet from Pécs, Hungary and an 11th-century iron helmet, probably from the Novgorod area. The Nemiya Helmet has few parallels among the surviving military artefacts of early medieval Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.It was buried around the years c. 620–625 AD and is widely associated with an Anglo-Saxon leader, King Rædwald of East Anglia; its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown.
Attic helmet: ancient Greeks Boar's tusk helmet: 17th century BCE: Mycenaean Greeks until the 10th century BCE Boeotian helmet: ancient Greek cavalry Chalcidian helmet: ancient Greeks Coolus helmet: ancient Romans Corinthian helmet [1] ancient Greeks Disc and stud helmet: c. 400 BCE: ancient Illyrians & Adriatic Veneti until 167 BCE Galea ...
Roman ridge helmet (Berkasovo I), early 4th century AD. Made of iron and sheathed in silver-gilt, it is decorated with glass gems. From the "Berkasovo treasure", Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad . The Late Roman ridge helmet was a type of combat helmet of Late Antiquity used by soldiers of the Late Roman army. It was characterized by the ...