Peculiar helmeted head

[Britannicus]

Can anyone help with this? A little helmeted head, facing, in some kind of grey-green stone, attached to a metal mount (38x50 mm.) with some floral adornment. It was purchased in a lot with Roman coins mostly from the Balkans.
- Francis

[Molinari]

If you hadn't said it was from a Roman lot, I would have thought Indian and not a relic from western civilization.  

[Britannicus]

I was thinking more in the direction Iranian/Scythian. The guy I bought it from had coin material mostly from the Balkans and Syria.

[SC]

Definitely Eastern style.

I don't know how old.  Could be early Turkic.  There was a revival in the use of human imagery under the early Turkic people in the Near East as seen on some of the coins of the Zengids and Atabegs and on Seljuk metalwork.

Shawn

[Britannicus]

Yes, that sounds plausible - I have plenty of those Zengid, Artukid etc. coins with human images.
I just wish the guy I acquired it from had made a note on where he got if from!