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Name: Cavalry Sports CSE 10 (Visegrad)
Robinson type: Cavalry Sports E
Findspot: Visegrad, Hungary, (HUN)
Date: second third of the 2nd century AD.
Now kept: Visegrad, Matyas Kiraly Museum. Inv. 65.81.1
Dimensions: H, 220mm; B, 150mm
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Remarks

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Remarks:
  1. Bronze, female mask.
  2. Found in 1962/3 during excavations in the castle gardens.
  3. The 'hair' is depicted as running diagonally on either side from a central parting. At the hairline in the middle of the forehead there is a semi-circular amulet (lunata).
  4. The eye sockets and the notrils have been holes through the metal.
References:
  1. Garbsch, J., (1978), "Römische Paraderüstungen" p.70, O.42 & Taf.24, 4
  2. Soproni, S., (1976), "Romai erödrendszer a Dunakanyarban" (Ausstellung Visegrad).
Now kept: Unknown

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