====== Alexander The Great Helmet Headdress ======

The Phrygian helmet worn by Alexander on his own Porus Medallions is the most authentic case.

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A similar helmet was found in his father’s tomb.

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Such helmets are also worn by other Macedonians in contemporaneous tomb friezes.

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Macedonian cavalrymen also wore Boeotian helmets.

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And hybrids exist.

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Alexander also seems to have owned a helmet imitating the Nemean lionscalp of his putative paternal ancestor Heracles. He wears it on the Alexander sarcophagus, probably in the Battle of Issus.

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and also in some other early portrait sculptures.

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