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Name: Cavalry Sports CSD 12 (Leiden)
Robinson type: Cavalry Sports D
Findspot: Vechten, Utrecht province, (NLD)
Date: second half, 1st century AD
Now kept: Rijksmuseum van Oudeheden, Leiden. Inv. VF 1047
Dimensions: H, 160mm; B, 138mm
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Remarks

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Remarks:
  1. Iron with bronze sheet covering.
  2. This mask is distinguished from others of the type by the fact that there are no ears modelled.
  3. Around the rim of the mask there are four pierced holes. These may have been used to attach to the mask to some indeterminate support.
References:
  1. Robinson, H.R. (1975), "The Armour of Imperial Rome", (Arms & Armour Press), p.123, No.358
  2. Klumbach, H., (1974), "Römische Helme aus Niedergermanien", (Bonn), p.62-3 & Taf.47
  3. Garbsch, J., (1978), "Römische Paraderüstungen" p.63, Taf.18
  4. 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.32, Fig.7
  5. Stuart, P. (1986), "Provincee van een Imperium", Leiden.
  6. Kalee, C.A. (1989), "Roman helmets and other militaria from Vechten", in "Roman military equipment: the sources of evidence", Proceedings of the 5th Roman Military Equipment Conference, B.A.R.  I.S. 476, (Oxford), pp.193-226.
  7. Hanel, N., Peltz, U. & F. Willer, (2000); 'Untersuchungen zu römischen Reiterhelmmasken aus der Germania inferior'. Bonner Jahrbücher, 200, 272
Now kept: Leiden

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