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Name: Cavalry Sports CSD 10 (Copenhagen)
Robinson type: Cavalry Sports D
Findspot: Rome, found in the Tiber, (ITA).
Date: Mid 1st century AD
Now kept: National Museum, Copenhagen, Inv. no. 5366
Dimensions: H, 158mm; B, 194mm
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Remarks

Item details
Remarks:
  1. Bronze.
  2. The wide face is clean shaven and the ears are only sketchily suggested. The wide mouth is not particularly well modelled here.
References:
  1. Robinson, H.R. (1975), "The Armour of Imperial Rome", (Arms & Armour Press), p.123. No.356
  2. Garbsch, J., (1978), "Römische Paraderüstungen" p.63 & Taf.18, 4
  3. Beck, F. & Chew, H. (1991), "Masques de Fer. Un officer romain du temps de Caligula", Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris (Exhibition catalogue), p.31, Fig.6
  4. Hanel, N., Peltz, U. & F. Willer, (2000) 'Untersuchungen zu römischen Reiterhelmmasken aus der Germania inferior'. Bonner Jahrbücher, 200, 273
Now kept: Unknown

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