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A Roman visor helmet recently discovered near Nijmegen, Holland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Extract

The beautiful visor helmet illustrated in plates VI and VII is a recent addition to the fine collection of Roman antiquities belonging to Mr. G. M. Kam of Nijmegen, Holland, to whom I am indebted for photographs and detailed particulars. The helmet was recovered from a gravel-bed on the left bank of the river Waal below Nijmegen. In the inside of the helmet among the clay and gravel lay a pair of bronze cheek-pieces overlaid with silver, which must have belonged to a helmet of a different pattern, and a number of melon-shaped beads of blue glass (fig. 35).

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Copyright © James Curle 1915. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

page 81 note 1 Curle, , A Roman Frontier Post, Glasgow, 1911, plate xxiiGoogle Scholar.

page 81 note 2 Benndorf, Otto, Antike Gesichtshelme und Sepulcralmasken, Wien, 1878, Taf. viiiGoogle Scholar.

page 83 note 1 Benndorf, op. cit. Taf. xiii (1a).

page 83 note 2 ὡς καὶ αὺτῷ τούτῳ ἐπάγειν ἐπὶ σϕᾶς τῶν θεωμένων τὰς ὄψεις. Arrian, Τέχνη Τακτική, 34. 2.

page 83 note 3 Benndorf, op. cit. Taf. v and vi (3a).

page 83 note 4 Curle, op. cit. plates xxvii and xxviii.

page 83 note 5 Benndorf, op. cit. Taf. xii (3a).

page 83 note 6 ibid. Taf. xii (1a).

page 85 note 1 Benndorf, op. cit. Taf. iii.

page 85 note 2 The same braiding of the hair is to be seen on a mask found in the river Aluta near Rieska, Roumania. The rosette is replaced by a small ‘lunula.’ The mask is obviously of later date than the example from Nola : Benndorf, op. cit. Taf. x.

page 85 note 3 Benndorf, op, cit. p, 15, n.