 A description of a boar's tusk helmet appears in book ten of Homer's "Iliad", as Odysseus is armed for a night raid to be conducted against the Trojans.Fragments of ivory which might have come from helmets of this kind have been discovered on Mycenaean sites (at Dendra, for instance, fragments were found alongside the bronze panoply excavated in 1960) and an ivory plaque, also from a Mycenaean site, represents a helmet of this kind.Although they would not provide as good protection as a metal helmet, they may have been worn by some leaders as a status symbol, or a means of identification.