Ancient Roman Gladiator Murmillo Cassis Crista Helmet With Medieval Style Skullcap Nasal Helmets With Nose Guard – 3 Replica Helmets Original Items

New Made Items: Only One Lot of 3 Available. Just recently discovered in the back of our warehouse here at IMA are 3 wonderful ancient style helmets! These are relatively new made items and come complete with leather lining and padding on the insides.

The helmets in this lot:
– Roman Gladiator Murmillo Style Cassis Crista: The murmillo was a type of gladiator during the Roman Imperial age. The murmillo-class gladiator was adopted in the early Imperial period to replace the earlier Gallus, named after the warriors of Gaul. As the Gauls inhabiting Italy had become well integrated with the Romans by the time of the reign of Augustus, it became undesirable to portray them as enemy outsiders; the Gallus-class gladiator thus had to be retired.

– x2 Nasal Helmets: The nasal helmet was a type of combat helmet characterized by the possession of a projecting bar covering the nose and thus protecting the center of the face; it was of Western European origins and was used from the late 9th century to at least c. 1250.

The nasal helmet was characterized by the possession of a nose-guard, or “nasal”, composed of a single strip of metal that extended down from the skull or browband over the nose to provide facial protection. The helmet appeared throughout Western Europe late in the 9th century, and became the predominant form of head protection, replacing previous types of helmet whose design was ultimately based on Late Roman types such as the ridge helmet and early helmets of spangenhelm construction. Early nasal helmets were universally conical in shape. The skull could be raised from a single sheet of iron or be of composite, segmented (spangenhelm) construction. The spangenhelm variety was, in general, the earlier method of construction. Single-piece skulls, being technically more difficult to produce, became more common with the increase in metallurgical skill over time.

Though nasals had been used on earlier helmets, and on contemporary helmets found in Byzantium, Slavic Eastern Europe and the Middle East, those characteristic of the nasal helmet were in general larger and were fully integrated into either the skull or browband of the helmet. The nasals of other helmets tended to be riveted to the skull either directly or as part of a T-shaped, combined nasal and eyebrow-piece.

All helmets come ready to wear or display!