大英博物館のインスタグラム(britishmuseum) - 1月5日 23時45分

This helmet was cast into the River Thames over 2,000 years ago, perhaps as an offering to the gods. It was dredged from the river at Waterloo Bridge in the early 1860s and dates from 200–100 BC.
Ancient Greek sources tell us that Celts wore horned helmets into battle, but this is the only Iron Age helmet with horns ever to have been found anywhere in Europe. Horns were often a symbol of the gods in different parts of the ancient world. This might suggest the person who wore this was a special person, or that the helmet was made for a god to wear.
The helmet is made from sheet bronze pieces held together with many carefully placed bronze rivets. Its swirling decoration, typical of Celtic art, may have carried hidden meanings.

See this extraordinary object in #Celts, before the exhibition closes on 31 January.
britishmuseum.org/celts

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