[Illustration: Fig. 68.--GRAECO-ITALIAN HELMET OF DEBASED CORINTHIAN FORM (NO. 191). 1:6.] The evidence of inscriptions, painting and sculpture shows that the Corinthian helmet was generally worn by the Greeks from the first appearance of metal armour in the eighth century B.C. to the early years of the fifth. It then became less common, but never quite disappeared, and was used, certainly as a decorative type, by the Romans of the Empire. [Illustration: FIG. 69.--ATTIC HELMET FROM MACEDONIA (NO. 195). Ca. 1:4.] [Illustration: FIG. 70.--ATTIC HELMET DECORATED WITH RAM'S HEADS ON THE CHEEK-PIECES. AT NAPLES.] [Illustration: FIG. 71.--HEAD OF HIPPOLYTE, WITH HELMET IN THE SHAPE OF A PHRYGIAN CAP.] The Attic helmet, which gets its name from its use on the coins of Athens (fig. 12, _f-l_), appeared first in the sixth century B.C., and in the fourth was the usual type. In shape it is lighter than the Corinthian, and resembles a cap with appendages to protect the neck, cheeks and nose. The ear was thus left free. The finest Attic helmet (No. =195=, fig. 69) has been acquired recently from the British Salonika Force. It was found with a spearhead and other objects in a grave of about 500 B.C. in the camp of the 29th General Hospital at Mikra Karabournou, in January, 1918, and was transferred to this collection from the Imperial War Museum. The nasal is elegantly modelled, eyebrows and tongues of hair over the forehead are wrought in relief, and broad spiral bands in relief decorate and strengthen the cheek-pieces. The cheek-pieces were often hung on hinges (No. =197=), and were pushed up from the face when the wearer was not fighting (fig. 81). No. =198= is a cheek-piece from Loryma in Caria, which reproduces the form of the face beneath it. An Attic helmet from Ruvo in Apulia (No. =196=) has fixed cheek-pieces in the shape of rams' heads, which were completed with applied reliefs like those of a similar helmet at Naples (fig. 70). The nose-piece was often omitted. The forehead was well covered, and was usually marked by a triangular frontal band, often enclosing an ornament. No. =197= has the head of a young Satyr in relief. The Attic helmet was also adopted in Italy, especially by the Etruscans. No. =199= (fig. 78) was found in an Etruscan tomb at Vulci. [Illustration: FIG. 72.--ITALIAN HELMETS WITH METAL CRESTS (NOS. 205, 202). 1:6.]