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| Item details |
| Name: |
Cavalry Sports CSC 37 (Herzogenburg) |
| Robinson type: |
Cavalry Sports C |
| Findspot: |
Herzogenburg, St. Pölten, Niederösterreich, (AUT). Found in 1972. |
| Date: |
mid 2nd century AD. |
| Now kept: |
Herzogenburg, Augustiner Chorherrenstifft. |
| Dimensions: |
Unknown |
| Discuss on RAT: |
http://www.roma...wforum.php?f=45 |
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Remarks
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Iron skull with bronze browband.
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Youthful beardless male face with bulging, finely modeled eyebrows and half closed eyes.
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The eye openings, nose holes and lips have been cut through the metal of the mask.
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Inscriptions about the base of the nose are illegible and also possibly on the left cheek.
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The hair is symmetrically arranged into two rows of curls from the forehead middle.
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| References: |
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Garbsch, J., (1978), "Römische Paraderüstungen" p.67, O.23 & Taf.21, 3
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Ubl, H., (1973), "Ein römischer Gesichtshelm aus Herzogenburg", Pro austria Romana, 23, 16f.
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Ubl, H., (1978), "Ein römischer Gesichtshelm aus Herzogenburg", Römisches Österreich, 5
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Junkelmann, M. (1996), "Reiter wie Statuen aus Erz", p.33, Abb.57, 58
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| Now kept: |
Unknown |
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