Note 262 — Chapter V
Reading edition
The following passage of the Iliad, XIX. 379-383, can leave no doubt on this point:—
ὥς ἀπ᾽ ᾽Αχιλλῆος σάκεος σέλας αἰθέρ᾽ ἵκανε καλοῦ, δαιδαλέου· περὶ δὲ τρυϕάλειαν ἀείρας κρατὶ θέτο βριαρήν· ἡ δ᾽, ἀστὴρ ὣς ἀπέλαμπεν ἵππουρις τρυϕάλεια· περισσείοντο δ᾽ ἔθειραι χρύσεαι, ἃς ῞Ἡϕαιστος ἵει λόϕον ἀμϕὶ θαμειάς.
"So shone up to the sky the glance of the beautiful artistic shield of Achilles. Lifting then up the powerful helmet, he put it on his head, and the plumed helmet glanced like a star, and the hairs of gold waved, which Hephæstus had thickly set round the cone (λόφον)."
See the description of these parts of the Homeric helmets in 'Troy and its Remains,' pp. 279-281, and 334.