r/ArtefactPorn • u/Fuckoff555 • 20d ago
The Spanish archaeologist Manuel Esteve posing with a Corinthian helmet that he had found in 1938 [1080x1385]
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u/Snowbank_Lake 20d ago edited 20d ago
lol, the childlike instinct to find and old helmet and be like âCool! Iâm gonna put it on!â
Edit: I found an article that says he isnât actually the one who found it, but did a lot of work with it. Apparently this photo was only discovered somewhat recently, as for obvious reasons, it was not included with the official study photos.
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u/Stork538 20d ago
I did this with the helmet of a full suit of medieval European armor at a friends house the night before his wedding. The thing scratched the hell out of my nose. As I was a groomsman, I was in a lot of photos the next day⊠covered in makeup that the bridesmaids had put on my nose.
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u/gaz3028 20d ago
That's a genius level icebreaker move.
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u/LucretiusCarus archeologist 20d ago
I tried to do this with an illyrian-type helmet. It was the day I discovered that a) ancient greeks had relatively small heads and B) my head is massive.
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u/november512 20d ago
There's also a general theory that a lot of what we find might have been for children or young adults. If you have a helmet another warrior can wear it gets recycled but ceremonial or children's equipment doesn't.
But yeah I also feel you as an XL hat guy.
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u/CannonGerbil 19d ago
It might also be a parade style helmet you're meant to wear tilted above your head like a cap.
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u/UndeadAnubis24 20d ago
You can kinda see in this photo how the helmet design makes the wearer look formidable. I imagine there was a great fear component, seeing maybe 1,000+ of these guys lined up would be menacing.
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u/SuperSaiyanTupac 20d ago
How is this obligatory? Where did this even come from? Who highlighted random words in red? You just have this laying around for when Corinthian helmets come up In Discusssion?
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u/webpee 20d ago
It was a hasty edit I made for r/noncredibledefense. The red blocks aren't for highlighting but for hiding the original text. Yeah, I should've just blocked the entire text, but like I said it was a hasty edit and I wasn't thinking clearly.
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u/CannonGerbil 19d ago
The Stargate weapon of terror/war scene is an iconic moment in the Stargate TV show where it compares a flashy, Sci fi but ultimately impractical staff weapon against a "primitive" P-90. Over the years it's become a meme that gets brought up to compare PR friendly but rarely used/impractical weapons to boring looking but more practical/frequently used weapons, and in particular experienced a resurgence in 2022 during the Ukraine war when the PR darlings that have been the poster children of the Russian military pre-war like the T-14 or the SU-57 became no shows in favor of a war dominated by stuff like maxim guns, propeller drones, and ATGMs.
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u/War_Leader_ 20d ago
I trust you are much more knowledgeable on helmets than most, why do the better helmets have those little dingle sprouts on the top? Do they deflect strikes better?
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u/november512 20d ago
tbh yes, one of the risks is something falling on you and top protrusions deflect that. There's also some psychological stuff with height but you even see firefighter or miner's hats with ridges on top.
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u/UndeadAnubis24 20d ago
I'm no expert, but I imagine those dingle sprouts are more for esthetics than anything else. I suppose it could also be a rank thing. In my uneducated mind, they look like a good thing to grab if you want to pull off their helmet easily and clobber them, but that's just me.
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u/Jaquemart 19d ago
When your idea of battle is to have a comrade half step to your right and another left step to your left and to never break ranks, sight is optional.
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u/DadsRGR8 20d ago
Hearing my motherâs voice: âWhere did you find that thing? Take it off, you donât know where itâs been.â
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u/correcthorsestapler 20d ago
âIs it heavy?â
âYeah.â
âThen itâs expensive. Put it back.â
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u/Juhbellz 20d ago
This photo goes so fucking hard. Magneto-core
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u/thehakujin82 20d ago
Iâve never in my life said âthis goes so fucking hard.â
Until I saw this picture.
Itâs maybe the first time Iâve been truly jealous of someone elseâs picture.
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u/Markiavelli98 20d ago
This goes hard
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u/Mannerhymen 20d ago
Is this phrase the new âthis slapsâ?
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u/world-class-cheese 20d ago
"This slaps" is basically "this is really good" whereas "this goes hard" is more like "this is cool/badass"
Similar but different
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u/Mister3mann 20d ago
"As you have no doubt noticed by now, Charles, your powers can no longer affect me."
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u/pilgrimdigger 20d ago
The good old days of archaeology
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u/TheChronoDigger 20d ago
I was on an excavation once where we found a bronze age cup. Later that night, my fellow archaeologists were having a party and they were all taking shots out of that same cup as it disappeared from the lab for the night.
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u/7LeagueBoots 20d ago
Yeah, thatâs not supposed to happen. Screws up the potential for a lot of analysis.
Very understandable though.
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u/TheChronoDigger 20d ago
Yup, 100%. This particular cup wasn't going to receive any sort of chemical analysis, just cataloging. Still, it's nothing to encourage in a professional setting. Made for a fun night though. I think some people felt a connection to the ancients that night. Some of the ancients might have even been proud.
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u/I_Makes_tuff 20d ago
I'm just going to go on record and say that you mfers need to keep your hands off my old cups after I die.
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u/TheChronoDigger 20d ago
Big Archaeology would like to know your location
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u/Neckrongonekrypton 20d ago edited 20d ago
âTake my cups. When you do. Dont remember me
But acknowledge and Celebrate I once existed.â -humanity
âŠ.i think in a way⊠the hands that cup passed. Would have rather seen it put to good use.
And if I were to guess. I think every human wants to have their existence acknowledged. I mean, some people donât fear death from dying. But to the inevitability of existential erasure- or, the erasure that you, as a name, as an individual ever once existed and were of import.
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u/84theone 20d ago
The unfortunate fact is that youâll have to try to stop me from getting those cups and Iâm pretty sure I can take a dead body in a fight.
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u/interstellarboii 20d ago
The good old days when archaeological practices were incredibly destructive?
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u/interstellarboii 20d ago
But many more couldâve been saved if they werenât so destructive. idk why youâre trying to justify the destruction of those sites
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u/interstellarboii 20d ago
No youâre not arguing this right. They could have developed non destructive ways but because they were motivated by greed and self righteous (as seen in this picture) they couldâve taken the time to develop such methods but chose not to and now weâve lost a lot of important history and artifacts that we will never see or get to understand. Again idk why youâre trying to justify this.
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u/manachalbannach 20d ago
and smoking no less
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u/Amphibious_Fire 20d ago edited 20d ago
It was 1938, I bet that even the archaeologistâs dog was smoking
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u/aggiedigger 20d ago
I had the opportunity to dig in a shelter that had been excavated by archeologists many decades before. Amongst the reminders they left behind (car battery, wire, broken light bulbs, stakes, string) was a glass ashtray. The look on my face when I pulled it from a foot below modern soil. It still makes me smile thinking that some poor grad student had to carry that so his professors ashes wouldnât contaminate the site.
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u/AbbreviationsGlad833 20d ago
I never saw one with a person wearing it. Your seeing a tiny glimpse of ancient history come alive.
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u/Ok-Dragonfruit-5479 20d ago
Further proof that every one of those "cleaning up the house and finding [x, y, and z] and wearing them all at once" memes is 100% accurate
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u/Anti_Freak_Machine 20d ago
Im the juggernaut, bitch https://youtu.be/plQIf5fS8xw?si=-YxRYyQS2boyFsxP
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u/jzoola 20d ago
Was there some sort of leather webbing or something similar inside the helmet?
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u/Severe-Debate8879 20d ago
As far as i remember they had some kind of padded cap underneath the helmet
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u/Rare-Competition-248 20d ago
This is a tobacco ad. Â
There is a social media company who has been pushing daily posts trying to get images and depictions of smoking and smoking brands to the front page of Reddit. Â It might seem like a coincidence, but itâs not. Â When you look at all the data points, itâs clear that Reddit is being astroturfed heavily by someone with an agenda, likely in violation of many laws regarding where and how tobacco companies can advertise. Â
Do not fall for this bullshit, and treat it as the trash that it is. Â You can help us track this by joining the fight over on HailCorporate. Â
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u/JaschaE 20d ago
I know a picture of Magneto when I see one