Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21857/yl4okf5z89

THE ROMAN REPUBLICAN HELMET FROM SISAK

Ivan Radman-Livaja ; Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 19, 10000 Zagreb, Republika Hrvatska

Abstract

The Archaeological Museum in Zagreb holds in its collections an odd Roman helmet discovered in the close vicinity of Sisak, known as Siscia in Roman times and as Segestica during the Iron Age. The helmet may be identified as an Etruscan-Italic type helmet which had been subjected to makeshift repairs. It appears to be a later model which could be approximately dated to the end of the 2nd and the first decades of the 1st century B.C. Since no Roman military campaign took place in the region of Segestica during that period, we may conjecture that the helmet was either used by local warriors who captured it as war booty outside of Pannonia, or that it was used by Octavian’s troops during the siege of Segestica in 35 B.C., either by an auxiliary who adapted an older piece of Roman equipment to suit his own needs, or perhaps by a newly recruited legionary who was given older gear due to lack of adequate up-to-date equipment.

Keywords

Roman Republican military equipment, Etruscan-Italic type helmet, Segestica / rimska republikanska vojna oprema, etruščansko-italski tip kacige, Segestika

Hrčak ID:

305929

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/305929

Publication date:

1.2.2023.

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