SL-2 helmet
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| Proper name: | Helmet A of Negau, Ženjak helmet 13, Reinecke Helm 1 |
| Classification: | helmet |
| Archaeological type: | Negau helmet, Slovene Negau type, Vače variant |
| Material: | bronze |
| Size: | height 18.4 cm, diameter min. 26.7 cm, diameter max. 28 cm, thickness min. 1.3 cm, thickness max. 1.6 cm |
| Condition: | complete, damaged |
| Archaeological culture: | La Tène A |
| Date: | second half of 5th–beginning of 4th centuries BC |
| Date derived from: | typology |
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| Site: | Ženjak (Benedikt, Slovenia) |
| Field name: | Obrat |
| Archaeological context: | hoard |
| Coordinates (approx.): | 46° 35' 36.56" N, 15° 53' 19.68" E |
| Find date: | 1811 |
| Current location: | Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien – Antikensammlung (on exhibition) |
| Inventory Nr.: | VI 1659 |
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| Sources: | Reinecke 1942: 132, No. 1, pl. 11 Egg 1986: 227 (No. 324), fig. 183, pl. 243 Nedoma 1995: 16–20, fig. 1–8 |
Images
 Details of object SL-2 helmet.
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Commentary
Negau-type helmet of bronze, with domed bowl, with median ridge from front to back, and with small flanged rim, cylindrical base. Blackish green to dark green and brown patina on exterior, corroded light green to brown beige on interior. All surfaces with traces of corrosion as well as long thin ridges of corrosion along the bowl. On the back side a section of the brim is broken. The filler is completely missing. Around the hole bowl a stamped decoration in form of spiral eyes above the concave fillet.
Bibliography
| Egg 1986 | Markus Egg, Italische Helme. Studien zu den ältereisenzeitlichen Helmen Italiens und der Alpen. Teil 1: Text, Teil 2: Tafeln, Mainz: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum 1986. |
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| Egg 1988 | Markus Egg, "Italische Helme mit Krempe", in: Angelo Bottini, Markus Egg, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Hase, Hermann Pflug, Ulrich Schaaff, Peter Schauer, Götz Waurick (Eds), Antike Helme. Sammlung Lipperheide und andere Bestände des Antikenmuseums Berlin [= Monographien Band 14], Mainz: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum 1988, 222–270. |
| Gabrovec 1966 | Stane Gabrovec, "Chronologie der Negauerhelme", in: Massimo Pallottino, Renato Peroni, Mariarosa Corona, Virginia Corona (eds), Atti del VI Congresso Internazionale delle Scienze Preistoriche e protostoriche. Roma 29 agosto - 3 settembre 1962. Vol III: Comunicazioni Sezioni V-VIII, Roma: 1966, 114–120. |
| Hormayr 1823 | Joseph Freiherr von Hormayr, Wien, seine Geschicke und seine Denkwürdigkeiten, Wien: Franz Härter 1823. |
| Marstrander 1925 | Carl Johan Sverdrup Marstrander, "Les inscriptions des casques de Negau, Styrie", Symbolae Osloensis 3 (1925), 37–64. |
