How to Cite

Graells, Raimon, Lorrio, Alberto J. and Quesada, Fernando: Cascos hispano-calcídicos: Símbolo de las elites guerreras celtibéricas, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2022 (Kataloge Vor- und Frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer, Volume 46). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1107

Identifiers

ISBN 978-3-96929-188-7 (PDF)

Published

08/03/2022
The print publication was published in 2014 by Verl. d. Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz, ISBN 978-3-88467-230-3.

Authors

Raimon Graells, Alberto J. Lorrio, Fernando Quesada

Cascos hispano-calcídicos

Símbolo de las elites guerreras celtibéricas

The Hispano- Chalcidian helmet is a fully Hispanic type, datable to between the 4th and 2nd century BC and with a mainly Celtiberian concentration. However, this type has recently been identified following the looting and sale of a number of specimens, probably from Aranda de Moncayo. The name is explained by its shape, which is reminiscent of Chalcidian helmets and their Italic derivatives, but which takes important morpho-technological details from local Celtiberian production.
Although there is considerable variability among the 32 specimens identified so far, we can consider this to be the result of individualized production. But apart from these variations, the Hispano- Chalcidian group has an easily recognizable predetermined design: a shell with openings for the ears, long muzzle-guard, articulated cheeks (the rim of these pieces is reinforced by riveting a pseudo-hemispherical ribbon), the attachment of ribbons on the front and the systematic application of a complex decorative structure formed by feathers inserted in lateral appliqués and by the vertical lophos, supported between the fork of the cylindrical appendage which is documented to be fixed by three rivets on the upper part of the shell and the rings on the front and dorsal part of the shell.
The study presented here analyses the morphological and decorative characteristics in order to approach their production and the meaning of the weapons themselves: protective elements and, at the same time, vehicles with which to express different messages of power, military rank or influences acquired during the course of mercenary activity in southern Italy.

Chapters

Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
a-IV
Índice
V-VII
Markus Egg
Vorwort
IX
Martín Almagro-Gorbea
Prefacio
XI-XIII
Michael Müller-Karpe
Antikenkriminalität: der Waffenfund von Aranda de Moncayo
XV-XXII
Agradecimientos
XXIII
Introducción: el descubrimiento de un nuevo tipo de casco
1-6
Catálogo
7-81
Tipología
83-168
Cronología y seriación
169-189
Contexto y significado
191-245
Conclusiones
247-259
Zusammenfassung
261-275
Conclusions
277-289
Bibliografía
291-307
Índices
309-315
Tablas 1-3 Láminas 1-5
317-330

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