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leathern helmet studded with boar’s teeth

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Canonical name
leathern helmet studded with boar’s teeth
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Kind
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Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The distinctive helmet placed on Ulysses and traced through theft and guest-gift transfers.

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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Eleon1 observation
·Direct

The boar-tusk helmet had previously been in Eleon before Autolycus stole it out of that place.

See evidence text
“This helmet had been stolen by Autolycus out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus.”

Claims

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·Direct

The leather helmet has plaited thong and felt linings and a skillfully boar-tusk-studded exterior; after passing through theft and guest-gift transfers, it is set on Ulysses.

See evidence text
“a leathern helmet that was lined with a strong plaiting of leathern thongs, while on the outside it was thickly studded with boar’s teeth, well and skilfully set into it; next the head there was an inner lining of felt. This helmet had been stolen by Autolycus out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus. He gave it to Amphidamas of Cythera to take to Scandea, and Amphidamas gave it as a guest-gift to Molus, who gave it to his son Meriones; and now it was set upon the head of Ulysses.”

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·Direct
“on his head he set a leathern helmet that was lined with a strong plaiting of leathern thongs, while on the outside it was thickly studded with boar’s teeth, well and skilfully set into it”
·Remembered
“This helmet had been stolen by Autolycus out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus.”

Passage preview

Book 10 · Passage 22

They then put on their armour. Brave Thrasymedes provided the son of Tydeus with a sword and a shield (for he had left his own at his ship) and on his head he set a helmet of bull’s hide without either peak or crest; it is called a skullcap and is a common headgear. Meriones found a bow and quiver for Ulysses, and on his head he set a leathern helmet that was lined with a strong plaiting of leathern thongs, while on the outside it was thickly studded with boar’s teeth, well and skilfully set into it; next the head there was an inner lining of felt. This helmet had been stolen by Autolycus out of Eleon when he broke into the house of Amyntor son of Ormenus. He gave it to Amphidamas of Cythera to take to Scandea, and Amphidamas gave it as a guest-gift to Molus, who gave it to his son Meriones; and now it was set upon the head of Ulysses.