Oh how I love a good digitized book! A FB friend helped me decoded that Crawford reference I was worrying about a while back. Which, in turn, led me to discover the joys of this late 19th century reference work and its rich repository of images.
If you want to know all about how helmets looked through out antiquity, see this long beautiful entry on ‘galea’. Enjoy!
Liv Mariah Yarrow 
[…] Daremberg and Saglio has helped clarify things for me. It seems Crawford was drawing a comparison to this type of […]