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CAVALRY SPORTS

Cavalry 'Sports' 'A'

  • Possibly Hellenistic in origin. Has a shallow skull that reaches just below the tips of the ears at the back. 
  • There are no projecting ear guards.

Cavalry 'Sports' 'B'

  • Have a distinctive high projecting peak rising from the brim of the skull piece. 
  • The skull pieces are made like ornamental helmets, with heavily embossed, though crude, figures.

Cavalry 'Sports' 'C'

  • In the form of an idealised male youthful face, with boldly embossed wavy hair across the brow.

Cavalry 'Sports' 'D'

  • Horizontally placed hinge, attaching the mask to the skull piece. 
  • The skulls are made to represent elaborately decorated helmets.

Cavalry 'Sports' 'E'

  • The masks represent female faces.

Cavalry 'Sports' 'F'

  • These have a removable central area of the mask that covers the eyes, nose and mouth. 
  • The helmet is divided into two parts on the line of the ears.

Cavalry 'Sports' 'G'

  • These helmets have a high arched crest.

Cavalry 'Sports' 'H'

  • The skull is of a debased 'attic' form. 
  • The crest does not rise as high as the 'G' type.

Cavalry 'Sports' 'I'

  • Of an 'attic' form, with an embossed brow band or forehead plate, rising along its upper edge into three rounded peaks.

Cavalry 'Sports' 'J'

  • In the form of a tall, Phrygian cap with a forward curving apex in the form of an eagle's head.


 
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