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Deaccessioned at Christie's New York, Arms and Armour from the Mougins Museum of Classical Art sales, the 30th January 2024. Helmet characterised by a domed skull, stepped occiput, and a steeply sloping neck-guard, which would have been worn by a legionary infantry soldier. Several Latin inscriptions on the neck-guard name the four helmet owners and the centurions under whom they would have fought. These punched inscriptions translate as follows: “Lucius Iunius Sabinus (serving in the centuria) of the Centurion Titus Sario (owns this helmet)” “Gaius Iulius Pro… (serving in the centuria) of the Centurion Titus Sario (owns this helmet)” “Iunius (serving in the centuria) of the Centurion Titus Maximus Antonius (owns this helmet)” “Lucius Iunius (serving in the centuria) of the Centurion Calventius (owns this helmet)”

h. 21.3 x w. 31.8 cm

Roman, 2nd half of 1st century AD

Brass

Provenance

Sotheby’s, Antiquities sale, New York, 13th June 1996, lot 99
Ex Axel Guttmann collection (AG539)
With Christie’s, 'Sale 5524, The Axel Guttmann collection of ancient arms and armour, Part 2', London, 28th April 2004, lot 145
With Royal-Athena Galleries, 2004
Ex Michael Steinhardt collection, New York, purchased in 2005
Acquired at Ward & Co Works of Art, LLC., 23rd January 2012

Publications

Sotheby’s, Antiquities sale, New York, 13th June 1996, lot 99
M. Eisenberg, "The Summer 1996 Antiquities sales, Auction Reports", Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, November/December 1996, vol. 7, no. 6, p. 48, fig. 8
M. Junkelmann, "Band VIII", Römische Helme: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein, 2000, Foldouts I & II, pp.77, 126 (AG 539), 130 (Taf. X), including J.Pollini, “Ein mith Inschriften versehener Legionärshelm” on pp. 169-184
Christie’s London, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 2, 28th April 2004, pp. 140-141, lot 145
J. M. Eisenberg, Ancient Arms, Armor, and Images of Warfare, Royal-Athena Galleries, October 2004, pp. 14-15, no. 33
K. Schörle (ed.), L’armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire, Musée départemental Arles antique, France, 2018, p. 60, no. 28
"Expo musée d’Arles « L’Armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire »", Human Hirst, 19th December 2018, [on-line] available at: https://humanhist.com/actualite/expo-musee-arles-armee-de-rome/
J. Coulston, "The Power and the Glory", Minerva: the International Review of Ancient Art & Archaeology, March/April 2019, vol. 30, no. 2, p. 19, no. 16
L. Rivière, "Une vie de Légionnaire" in Musée de la Légion étrangère (ed.), Invictus, au coeur de deux Légions mythiques, Musée de la Légion étrangère, Aubagne, 2020, p. 29

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from 2012 (outside of loan periods)
L’armée de Rome, la puissance et la gloire, Musée de départemental de l’Arles antique, Arles, France, 15th December 2018 — 22nd April 2019
Invictus. Au coeur de deux légions mythiques, Musée de la Légion étrangère, Aubagne, France, 10th September 2020 — 10th September 2020

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Roman Orichalcum ‘Imperial Gallic’ Type ‘I’ Helmet

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