4th-1st century BC. A bronze Scythian, Sarmatian or Sindo-Meothic helmetprising a rounded bowl with reposé three-band crest running from the brow over the top to the rear and with lateral scrolls at the brow, a flat circumferential band to the brow and temples with arches above the eyes and a small nasal; two D-shaped side-panels hinged at the upper edge and with a scalloped forward edge; fixing points for a separate crest on the upper face; mounted on a ctom-made stand. See Rabinovich, B. Z., Trudy Otdela istorii pervobytnoi kul’tury Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha (Works of the Department of history of prehistoric culture of the State Hermitage) I, Leningrad, 1941, pp.99-171; Bottini, A. et al., Antike Helme. Sammlung Lipperheide und Andere Bestände des Antikenmeums Berlin, Mainz, 1988, pp.137-150; Erlikh, V. R., Rossiiskaia Arkheologiia (Rsian Archaeology) (3), 1996, pp. 176—179 (in Rsian); Chernenko, E.V., The Scythians 700-300 BC, Hong Kong, 1998; Shevchenko, N. F., Zaitsev, Yu. P., Mordvintseva V. I. in Vestnik drevnei istorii (Bulletin of Ancient History) (1), 2011, pp.115-152 (in Rsian); ????????? ?. ?., '????? ??????????? ??????? ?? ????????? ?????? (Sarmatian Age Helmets from Eastern Europe) ', in Stratum Pl, n. 4, 2014, pp.249-284; Negin, A.E., Negin, A. E., 'Pozdnerimskie shlemy s prodol'nym grebnem', in Germania-Sarmatia II, Kaliningrad-Kursk, 2010, pp.343–58. 550 grams, 25cm (2.5 kg, 42.5cm including stand) (9 3/4 (16 3/4)"). From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; from her collection formed early 1960s-1990s. Apanied by an archaeological expertise of military specialist Dr. Raffaele D’Amato. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate number no.11064-184360. The cultural interchange and the military contacts between the Nomads of Kuban and the Hellenic people allowed the Sindo-Meothic noblemen to equip themselves with such beautiful defensive equipment. Another helmet of the same type, close to the Chalcidian-Attic type, with two ram-shaped plates protruding on the front, with spiral decorations on their surface, was found near the Mezmay village in Kuban. A similar helmet, most likely produced by the same workshop, is a specimen published by A.E. Negin, belonging to the Pkin Fine Arts Meum of Moscow, originally in the collection of S. Karakowskij (Negin, 2010, p.354 no.6").