rodonnell-hixenbaugh:A pair of ancient Greek bronze cheek pieces from a helmet of the Phrygian type.
rodonnell-hixenbaugh:A pair of ancient Greek bronze cheek pieces from a helmet of the Phrygian type. The cheek pieces covered most of the face, leaving openings for the eyes, nose, and mouth. They are adorned with a carefully worked stylized beard and mustache.The Phrygian type helmet exists in fewer than 50 surviving examples today, of those, less than 30 preserve these stylized bearded cheek pieces. The helmet type was especially popular in Macedonia and Thrace in the 4th century BC.Similar examples include: National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece, inv. no. 163; Archaeological Institute and Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, inv. no. 14061; and fragments in the Ny Carlsberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Princeton Universtiy Art Museum, New Jersey.# -- source link