The helmet was made through the use of slivers of boar tusks which were attached to a leather base, padded with felt, in rows. A description of a boar's tusk helmet appears in book ten of Homer 's Iliad, as Odysseus is armed for a night raid to be conducted against the Trojans.

Jul 23, 2017 · Some of these unique helmets were decorated with a crest, horse tail, or horns, and sometimes the front and back was adorned with various materials, in most cases probably feathers. A leather helmet covered with two rows of boar tusks from the tomb at Katsambas. Heraklion Archeological Museum.

The boar's tusk helmet is an iconic artifact of Mycenaean Greece, illustrating the martial culture, craftsmanship, and resourcefulness of the period. Mentioned in literary sources and found in archaeological contexts, these helmets offer a fascinating glimpse …

Boar’s-tusk helmets are made of rows of wild boars’ tusks attached to a leather or cloth base, with cheek guards to protect the warrior’s face. This type of helmet is described in detail in Homer’s Iliad, being worn by the Cretan hero Meriones.

Sep 5, 2024 · A wall drawing, dating back to between the seventeenth and sixteenth centuries BCE and discovered during excavations of the Minoan city Akrotiri, depicted warriors wearing helmets with tusks.

A description of a boar's tusk helmet appears in the tenth book of Homer 's Iliad where Odysseus is armed for a night-raid against the Trojans. Meriones gave Odysseus a bow, a quiver and a sword, and put a cleverly made leather helmet on his head.

By introducing to the discussion a Greek bronze helmet with incised boar's tusks as well as those boar's-tusk helmets with bronze cheek plates, more light is shed on the development and...

Feb 22, 2020 · The Iliad preserves the memory of Mycenaean material culture through the description of Odysseus’s helmet covered with the tusks of the wild animals. The activity and the trophy of the boar hunt were significant for the construction of a shared male identity in Mycenaean culture, and representations of the helmet are widespread.

Sep 28, 2018 · The most distinctive and unusual item of military equipment mentioned in the Iliad is the Mycenaeans’ boar’s tusk helmet. Nothing like it had ever been seen by anyone living when the Iliad was written down in the eighth century; it was a genuine bronze age artefact, described in the Iliad just as it would have looked in the bronze age, yet ...

A very beautiful ivory representation of a late boar tusks helmet is from a grave in Spata Attica dated around LH IIIB. This helmet is composed by an embossed lower ring probably made of bronze, three rows of boar tusks, a large upper crest holder, a …