Le casque gréco-illyrien a représentations figuratives (VIe – Ve siècles av. J.-C.) de Găvojdia, dep. de Timiş / The Greek-Illyrian Helmet with human representations (VI-Vth centuries B. C.) from Găvojdia, Timiş county

Abstract

We intend, in the fi rst part of the study, to publish the helmet with fi gurative representations of Greek-Illyrian type, discovered at Găvojdia and, in the second part, to analyse the scenes represented on that helmet in the context of the Balkans art. < e helmet made of a sheet of bronze with silver appliqués and found by accident in the Timiș River is, by its fi gurative representations an exceptional piece; if the rider motive can be seen also on the helmets of Olympia and Trebenište, the scene of the wild boar being hunted by two pedestrians, situated over the visor, is not present on other helmets of this type found until now. < is piece can be placed in the IIIA1 type of the Greek-Illyrian helmets, dating from the end of the 6th – beginning of the 5th centuries BC. < e rider and the wild boar hunt, as well as other ferocious beasts, such as the lion, the bear or the stag, are frequent scenes in the elite’s art of Greece, < racia or Illyria, represented in precious metals, pottery vessels or frescoes in the graves and temples. < e helmet of Găvojdia, together with other Greek-Illyrian ones without fi gurative representations found in the south-western part of Romania, prove that the north-< racian aristocracy was connected to the mentalities and the tastes of the elites in the south-eastern Europe.