Dear All, Despite the sad news over Palmyra, I really hope it will survive. See some news about a Thracian Helmet. Maybe time to post some coins with helmets? http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/20...trojan-war-motifs-from-bulgarias-brestovitsa/
Amazing what they are able to do to conserve and restore artefacts---I Love that helmet and I cringe every time I hear mention of what happened at Palmyra....
Great article but I can't help thinking how hard we are on coins with a little surface smoothing. I'm still not ready to seek out well tooled coins of the level regularly accepted in the painting market and, it seems, helmets. I probably would have preferred they clean off the pieces enough to make copies and then 'restore' a few dozen replicas (clearly marked, of course) for museums all over the world rather than patching up the original this much.
That's a good point, but they only show two pieces of the helmet as they were found. We don't really know how much of it was reconstructed, or whether the pieces were simply cleaned up and reattached. One of my favorite helmets...
