Cascos hallados en necrópolis celtibéricas conservados en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid

Abstract

This paper analyzes some helmets kept at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid. They come from Celtiberian cemeteries at Aguilar de Anguita (province of Guadalajara), Alpanseque and Almaluez (both in Soria). The first two were excavated by D. Enrique de Aguilera y Gamboa, marquis de Cerralbo, and the third by D. Blas de Taracena. The helmets were studied and drawn in ideal reconstruction by D. Juan Cabré, whose designs have been used by later scholars. In this paper we show and draw the helmets in their actual state of preservation, some of them heavily damaged. However, we’ll de able to show that the Aguilar de Anguita type follows an etrusco-italic type with peculiar cheekpieces that is in itself a modification of East Mediterranean types. The other helmets are basically conical in shape, with an altogether different handycraft and decoration, and belong to a Centroeuropean model, also modified in the Italian Peninsula.