This bronze helmet was derived from the distinctive leather hat worn by the Thracians from the north and by Phrygians from the east. It is typical of helmets worn by the Macedonian army, especially by members of the infantry, during the fourth century BC. The holes on each side indicate where the cheekpieces were once attached.
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1978-79 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1979), p. 35 (ill.)
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 33.
Art Institute of Chicago, Grave Goods from Ancient Cultures, Gallery 141, November 19, 1991 - May 17, 1992.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, April 15, 1994 - March 9, 2012.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York by 1978 [receipt no. 28151 in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1978.
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