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Name: Cavalry sports CSC 27 (Cologne/Köln)
Robinson type: Cavalry Sports C
Findspot: Cologne/Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen (GER). Found in 1841.
Date: 1st century AD
Now kept: Berlin, Pergamon Museum
Dimensions: H, 188mm
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Remarks

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Remarks:
  1. Iron with bronze.
  2. The mask represents the face of a beardless youth.
  3. The eye sockets and nostrils are pierced through the metal.
  4. There are the remains of a leather strap beneath the buckle.
  5. The mask was joined to the helmet skull by means of a hinge in the centre of the forhead.
References:
  1. Benndorf, O. (1878), "Antike Gesichtshelmr und Sepulcralmasken", Denkshr. der philos.-hist. Classe der kaiserl. (Akad. d. Wissensch. Vienna), 28. 338f., Nr. 31, Taf. 14.3.
  2. Vasilev, P.W. (1975), "Nabljudenjia varhu slem-maska od Plovdiv", Izkustvo, 25, 3/4, 58ff.
  3. Garbsch, J. (1978), "Römische Paraderüstingen", p.64
Now kept: Berlin

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