Mycenaean boar tusk helmet 1450-1400 BCE

"And Meriones gave to Odysseus a bow and a quiver and a sword, and about his head he set a helm wrought of hide, and with many a tight-stretched thong was it made stiff within, while without the white teeth of a boar of gleaming tusks were set thick on this side and that, well and cunningly, and within was fixed a lining of felt."

— Homer, Iliad 10.260–5

Mycenaean boar tusk helmet 1450-1400 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Herakleion.


Source:

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitxer:Eberzahnhelm_Heraklion.jpg

Quote:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D10%3Acard%3D254

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