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LOT 0503

Roman Cavalry Sports Helmet Mask

2ND CENTURY AD

5 1/4" (80 grams, 13.5cm).

A bronze face-mask fragment from a cavalry or sports helmet with moulded facial details, holes to the underside of the nose, openwork eyes with rings for the pupils, modelled top lip.

Provenance

Property of a European gentleman living in the UK; formerly in a private collection formed in the 1990s.

Literature

See Travis, H. & J. Roman Helmets, Stroud, 2014, item 89 for similar (complete).

CONDITION

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LOT 0503

Roman Cavalry Sports Helmet Mask

Sold for (Inc. bp): £8,125

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