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We discussed this before.
Is that Phoenician? This is in a museum in my town: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumba_del_guerrero
They have entire grave of a Phoenician mercenary there.
I don't know if the plume is historically accurate but the base is Corinthian
So that was a Greek mercenary that served in Phoenician army and he was using Greek armor. Interesting.
I don't think in warfare they had a rule that if someone made an armor design you can't use it anymore. So it could as much be just a Phoenician.
didn't they have patent law back then?
Ok, the article says it was 'probably' a Greek mercenary. They say the helmet was probably from Greece because of the decorations. They say he also had some jewelry with Egyptian goddess Sekhmet and inscription in hieroglyphs talking about Necao I. And the son of Necao I was the first pharaoh that started hiring Greek mercenaries. So it's possible it was a Greek warrior that fought with Egyptians and later Phoenicians. Interesting life for VI century B.C.
travel the world, kill random people, collect souvenirs - join the pharaoh's army now
If our original choice of helmets is steel, I'm gonna assume the guys in the other camp have steel too, so I'm not bringing a bronze helmet just to aura farm, however good looking it is.
Sorry best I can do is iron, if you don't want to die in a blaze of glory that is on you