#chalcis

[gemsofgreece]

Chalcís, Greece by Chipis Stelios. 

[2seeitall]

Karababa Fortress Gate (17th century), Chalcis (Chalkida), Greece

[romegreeceart]

Hydria detail: Wrestling of Atalanta and Peleus for the funerary games of king Pelias

* Chalcis

* 540-530 BCE

Attribution: Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

[armthearmour]

The only two surviving Sallets with nasals, one hinged one rigid. Both were recovered from the Venetian fortress at Chalcis, Greece, and are dated ca. 1450. Both are housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Sallets with nasals are depicted with some frequency in late medieval art, such as folio 72v of the BNF Latin 757 manuscript, shown below. However, these two helmets are the only extant examples of similar nasals.

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Barbute (from the Venetian Garrison at Chalcis).

Date: ca. 1350- 1420

Place of origin: North Italy

Medium: Iron

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Greek (Chalcidian) eye-cup.  Attr. to the Phineus Painter; ca. 520 BCE.  Thought to come from Rhegium (Rhegion) in southern Italy; now in the Getty Museum, Malibu. 

[gemsofgreece]

Town hall of Chalcis by my_greek_view on Instagram.

[armthearmour]

A Proto-Barbute from the garrison at Chalcis,

Height: 11.5 in/29 cm

Width: 8.25 in/21 cm

Depth: 9.8 in/25 cm

probably of Venetian manufacture, ca. 1350-1420, housed at the Cleveland Museum of Art.