Lot Essay
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M. Junkelmann, Reiter wie Statuen aus Erz, Mainz, 1996, p. 96, no. O 119; and H. Born and M. Junkelmann, Römische Kampf- und Turnierrüstungen: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, VI, Mainz, 1997, pp. 106-108, pls. 79, 112-115 and I-III (AG 451).
Cf. H. Russell Robinson, The Armour of Imperial Rome, London, pp. 128-129, pls. 376-377 for the type, Cavalry Sports type G, see pls. 376-377 for a similar helmet from Heddernheim; and R. Rainbird Clarke, East Anglia, London, 1960, p. 127, pl. 34 for another found in the River Wensum at Worthing, Norfolk. It has been suggested that the latter helmet may have originated from a workshop on the Rhine or the Danube.
M. Junkelmann, Reiter wie Statuen aus Erz, Mainz, 1996, p. 96, no. O 119; and H. Born and M. Junkelmann, Römische Kampf- und Turnierrüstungen: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, VI, Mainz, 1997, pp. 106-108, pls. 79, 112-115 and I-III (AG 451).
Cf. H. Russell Robinson, The Armour of Imperial Rome, London, pp. 128-129, pls. 376-377 for the type, Cavalry Sports type G, see pls. 376-377 for a similar helmet from Heddernheim; and R. Rainbird Clarke, East Anglia, London, 1960, p. 127, pl. 34 for another found in the River Wensum at Worthing, Norfolk. It has been suggested that the latter helmet may have originated from a workshop on the Rhine or the Danube.