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Corinthian Whipped Bronze Helmet, 560 BC.
It was discovered in 1930 in the Ria de Huelva, (Spain).
According to the analyses carried out by Dr. Gomez Torga, director of the laboratory of the Mines de la Reunion, in Rio Tinto, it is pure copper, without any kind of alloy.
In any case, this unique piece is one of the most important Greek finds of the Iberian Peninsula. By its location, it must be related to the emporion or commercial factory of Huelva, where numerous remains have appeared that evidenced trade between the Greeks and the Tartesians, which boomed in the middle of the sixth century BC. C, coincides with the date of this helmet, to which elites it would be intended as a weapon of prestige acquired to highlight to society the aristocratic status of its owner.
It was acquired by purchase, by the engineer José Albelda, who later donated it in 1932, to the Royal Academy of History.
Height: 26.6 cm, Width: 33.6 cm
Thickness: between 0.1 cm and 0.4 cm, but reaches 1.3 cm in the nasal defense.
Weight: 1370.5 g.
Indeed, the place of the finding is not too far from where it was recovered, also in a dredging of the River, a famous set of weapons of the Final Bronze, which makes it assumed that all these objects were deposited as exvotes or offerings to the divinity of those waters.
Water represented the passage point of Mas Allá in the Indo-European world, so this kind of offerings could be related to rites of arrival or passage, as can be interpreted another Greek helmet, something earlier, found in the waters of the Guadalete river, on its way through Arcos of the Frontier, which is preserved in the Museum of Jerez.
Source: Royal Academy of History. Text from the Catalogue of the exhibition Treasures of the Royal Academy of History. 2001. Sign written by Martín Almagro Gorbea.
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Dia de niebla by DeMadriz // Un amanecer con niebla en la ria de Huelva junto al muelle del Tinto.
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