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The Emesa helmet is a Roman cavalry helmet from the early first century AD. It consists of an iron head piece and face mask, the latter of which is covered in a sheet of silver and presents the indivi
The gold funerary mask from tomb 1
One of six Medusa ornaments from tomb 1's sarcophagus
30 April 1955 front cover of The Illustrated London News, issued shortly after the helmet's restoration
The Nijmegen helmet is also classified as a cavalry sports helmet.
Nijmegen Helmet
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The Nijmegen Helmet is a Roman cavalry sports helmet from the first or second century AD. It was found around 1915 in a gravel bed on the left bank of the Waal river, near the Dutch city of Nijmegen.
Emesa helmet
…hinge attaching the face mask to the head piece, and by head pieces that are decorated to represent helmets. Several type D examples exist, such as the Nijmegen helmet, but unlike these, the Emesa helmet was probably never intended for sporting use. It may instead have been given as a gift by a Roman official to a…
The Nijmegen cavalry helmet, an iron mask sheathed in bronze and silver discovered in 1915 on the left bank of the Waal river near Nijmegen, second half of the first century, Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen
Het Gezicht van Nijmegen (The Face of Nijmegen), a 2020 sculpture by Andreas Hetfeld