Battle artifacts from Battle of Alalia found

[guy]

 

The Battle of Alalia was a Pyrrhic victory for the Greeks in 540 BCE. In a naval battle off the coast of Corsica, the Greeks defeated a combined Etruscan and Carthaginian force. Despite their victory, the weakened Greek forces were soon compelled to withdraw from the area.

The Greeks later escaped to southern Italy, where they brought some of their spoils of victory. A recent excavation at Velia, near Paestum in southern Italy, south of Naples, uncovered weapons and other fascinating artifacts, including an Etruscan helmet. These discoveries are believed to date back to the Battle of Alalia.

 

 

 

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 Alongside the pottery, the temple floor also contained several bronze and iron weapons. There are, Scelza says, many fragments of weapons, including what appear to be pieces of a large decorated shield and two splendid helmets in a perfect state of preservation: one Etruscan of the "shell" type, which experts call Negau from the Slovenian location where they were found for the first time, and the other of the Chalcidian type.

 

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2022/02/01/helmets-arms-from-battle-of-alalia-found-at-velia_e9385207-5c62-4383-9222-127ca87c0222.html

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alalia

Here is a similar Etruscan helmet found at the Etruscan necropolis of Vulci, which is 75 miles from Rome.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.laprensalatina.com/unusual-inscription-found-inside-2400-year-old-etruscan-helmet/amp/

Edited November 3 by guy

[Crispina]

So interesting.

[guy]

Here is a video on the find:

 

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Amongst the remains are two helmets, one of the Chalcidian type which was common amongst Hellenistic soldiers in the Greek (southern) parts of Italy, and a Negau type helmet that is of a typical Etruscan ‘vetulonic’ shape.

 

 

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/ancient-helmets-found-alongside-archaic-ruins-in-the-acropolis-of-elea-velia/142660?amp

Edited November 3 by guy