The inscription in Iberian script and the name indicate that legionary Bekon was from one of the Spanish provinces. We know that Julius Caesar as governor of Hispania Ulterior (Southern Spain) put together a legion in this Spanish province (the tenth) in 61 BC. That was one of the legions that he used to conquer Gaul and Britain. Caesar disbanded the tenth legion in 45 BC. The veterans were give lands and farms in the South of France and Spain. On account of the model of the helmet and the Iberian inscription the helmet must date form the middle of the first century BC. That means that it could have been worn by one of Caesar's legionaries
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Helmets: greek (6th cent BC), Roman commander of horse guards (4th cent AD), legionary helmet(1 cent...
This surviving iron helmet with nose and chin guards probably belonged to a Barbarian in the sweep a...
The legion, consisting of around five thousand infantry and a small cavalry contingent, was the prin...
A group of objects from Spain and Romania bear the mark «X», a device probably to be associated with...
The nickname Hispaniensis, certificate for a ninth legion in the Augustan age, highlights the role o...
The death of Caesar’s legates, Sabinus and Cotta, with their fifteen cohorts in 54 BC is the most si...
The participation of Hispanian soldiers in the Roman army was continuous from Republican times and i...
The death of Caesar’s legates, Sabinus and Cotta, with their fifteen cohorts in 54 BC is the most si...
La anexión del Norte peninsular por los romanos supuso la presencia en dicho suelo de un contingente...
An update to Ritterling's history of this Roman regiment, which was garrisoned in Spain at the begin...
The early Imperial Roman legions were military units with great mobility which were required to move...
The Military Equipment and Material in the Lower Empire in Northern and Eastern Gaul. The Gallo-Rom...
Two Roman inscriptions are supposed to have been discovered at "Hellerena", modern Llerena in southe...
These three military units, chiefly made up of Asturian infantrymen combined on occasions with caval...
Asterix and Obelix would have been astonished to know that their southern cousins, the Transalpini o...
Helmets: greek (6th cent BC), Roman commander of horse guards (4th cent AD), legionary helmet(1 cent...
This surviving iron helmet with nose and chin guards probably belonged to a Barbarian in the sweep a...
The legion, consisting of around five thousand infantry and a small cavalry contingent, was the prin...
A group of objects from Spain and Romania bear the mark «X», a device probably to be associated with...
The nickname Hispaniensis, certificate for a ninth legion in the Augustan age, highlights the role o...
The death of Caesar’s legates, Sabinus and Cotta, with their fifteen cohorts in 54 BC is the most si...
The participation of Hispanian soldiers in the Roman army was continuous from Republican times and i...
The death of Caesar’s legates, Sabinus and Cotta, with their fifteen cohorts in 54 BC is the most si...
La anexión del Norte peninsular por los romanos supuso la presencia en dicho suelo de un contingente...
An update to Ritterling's history of this Roman regiment, which was garrisoned in Spain at the begin...
The early Imperial Roman legions were military units with great mobility which were required to move...
The Military Equipment and Material in the Lower Empire in Northern and Eastern Gaul. The Gallo-Rom...
Two Roman inscriptions are supposed to have been discovered at "Hellerena", modern Llerena in southe...
These three military units, chiefly made up of Asturian infantrymen combined on occasions with caval...