In Book 10 of the Iliad, Odysseus, assisted by Meriones, prepares himself for the night-raid with Diomedes. Among his accoutrements is a boartusk helmet (10.260-270):
“… while Meriones gave Odysseus a bow and quiver and a sword; and he [Odysseus] too put over his head a helmet fashioned of leather; on the inside the cap was cross-strung firmly with thongs of leather, and on the outer side the white teeth of a(Lattimore)