Ancient armies of Italy

**Scandalf** · 06-21-2014, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by Ulla

A Corinthian helmet. Used obviously by Greeks, and later adopted by Etruscans that introduce it at Rome.
It was a very expensive helmet for a soldier.

Love this type of helmet!

**Ulla** · 06-21-2014, 05:07 PM

Venetic warriors (Ancient Veneti from North-East Italy)

"Pileato"helmet (dated 500 BC) used by Veneti found in Oppeano, Verona

**Scandalf** · 06-21-2014, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by Ulla

Venetic warriors (Ancient Veneti from North-East Italy)

"Pileato"helmet (dated 500 BC) used by Veneti found in Oppeano, Verona

I read an article stating that they had the best horses in the Italian peninsula. Which is kinda odd. Wasn't Veneto a huge swamp before the Romans did the bonifica?

Peyrol · 06-21-2014, 05:29 PM

Originally Posted by Ulla

Taurini warrior

The celtic founders of my city.

They had a fierce resistence against Hannibal siege of Turin during the punic wars.

**Ulla** · 06-21-2014, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Scandalf

I read an article stating that they had the best horses in the Italian peninsula. Which is kinda odd. Wasn't Veneto a huge swamp before the Romans did the bonifica?

Both true.

I don't know if they had the best horses, but Ancient Veneti were very famous for their horses since the old times. This shows their indisputable Indo-European origin.

Peyrol · 06-21-2014, 05:46 PM

Very late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages, but still ''italic'' to many degree...

Longobard warriors

Lombard king of Italy Rotari (''Hrothar'' in old longobard language)

**~~SardiniaAtlantis~~** · 06-21-2014, 06:03 PM

It is written Samnite soldiers in the picture address, but I have seen this same painting used to depict Sea Peoples soldiers it is often said on the left is a Shardana soldier. Boh.

Pelliti Sardi

Guerrieri Nuragici

**Vesuvian Sky** · 06-21-2014, 06:06 PM

**Ulla** · 06-21-2014, 06:06 PM

Ancient Ligurians

Stele from Filetto, Massa-Carrara, Tuscany at border with Liguria

**Ulla** · 06-21-2014, 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by SardiniaAtlantis

It is written Samnite soldiers in the picture address, but I have seen this same painting used to depict Sea Peoples soldiers it is often said on the left is a Shardana soldier. Boh.

I know that someone stated on the forums that are not Samnites but in some way related to Sardinia or to Sea Peoples. In any case it's a tomb fresco from Nola (Campania) 4th century BCE conserved at the Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli (inv. nr. 9363) and it's part of the collection called Etruschi e popoli italici in Campania (Catalogue) not still open to public. These are all the infos I got on the web.