05-20-2014, 10:31 AM
Mike .
I might be putting my head on the block to say that I think this particular face mask may have been used in a different context to the Hippika Gymnasia, where it might have been worn by a standard bearer in some sort of battle situation.
It most certainly had been subject to many uses in its life time and in the end might have simply hooked onto an ordinary Legionary style of helmet.
This is where one of my many reproductions show this with a hook that may well have been fitted to its most later kind of use, just a small slot in the brow of any helmet would allow it to be clipped on and just as easy removed.
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I might be putting my head on the block to say that I think this particular face mask may have been used in a different context to the Hippika Gymnasia, where it might have been worn by a standard bearer in some sort of battle situation.
It most certainly had been subject to many uses in its life time and in the end might have simply hooked onto an ordinary Legionary style of helmet.
This is where one of my many reproductions show this with a hook that may well have been fitted to its most later kind of use, just a small slot in the brow of any helmet would allow it to be clipped on and just as easy removed.
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Brian Stobbs
