#FindsFriday #Celtic: `It is uncertain whether the approximately life-size bird figure on top of the helmet of Ciumeşti in Romania is a raven or another bird. This remarkable helmet has a parallel in a depiction on the Gundestrup cauldron found in Denmark. On the so-called inner plate E, on the left is a large figure that seems to dip a small figure into a cauldron. The rest of the plate is divided in two: below is a procession of foot soldiers marching towards the large figure, above four mounted warriors moving away from the large figure. The foremost of these four mounted warriors wears a helmet with a bird figure mounted on it. Equally interesting in this context, although no longer seen in connection with a helmet with bird appliqué, is the so-called outer plate f. It apparently shows a goddess with a bird in her right hand and two birds of prey on each side of her head (cf. Hatt 1980; Nielsen et al. 2005; Kaul/Mertens 1995). `
Source: Anna und Fritz Preinfalk, Eine latènezeitliche Grube mit Dohlenknochen aus Haselbach, Gem. Perschling. In: P. C. Ramsl, K. Rebay-Salisbury, P. Trebsche (Hrsg.); Schichtengeschichten.
Universitätsforschungen zur Prähistorischen Archäologie 328, Bonn 2019, 205 - 225.