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Name: Cavalry Sports CSD 23 (Paris)
Robinson type: Cavalry Sports D
Findspot: In the room of the tomb at Villesaison, Neuvy-Pailloux (Indre), (FRA)
Date: around 40-50 AD
Now kept: Louvre Museum, Paris, Inv.No. D.A.G.E.R., Br.49
Dimensions: H, 81mm; L, 103mm
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Remarks:
  1. Iron core, plated with bronze sheet.
  2. Only the right eye, the top of the nose and the right side of the forehead survive intact. Also, the right hand side of the hinge in the centre of the forehead.
References:
  1. 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.120, Fig.74a
  2. Garbsch, J. (1978), "Römische Paraderüstungen", (München), 64, Cat.no. O.15
Now kept: Paris

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