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Drawings Etruscan helmet

Object number

LDSAL2020.2.46

Artist/Designer/Maker

Bromet, William, Dr - Artist

Production date

1847

Material

Paper
Watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 468mm
Width: 288mm

Inscriptions

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ETRUSCAN
HELMET

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Presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Dr. Bromet F.S.A.
Feb 1847

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W. Bromet.
1847.

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See Soc. Ant. Proc. I p. 167

References

Reference (free text)

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 1 (1843-1849): 167.12 January 1847: 'Dr. W. Bromet, M.D., F.S.A. communicated an account of several bronze helmets and celts discovered in forming a new road at Mattrey, the ancient Mattrejium, between Innsbruck and Brixen...[One] of these is preserved at Salzburg, of which a drawing accompanied this communication; it had cheek-pieces, but no vizor...the design would indicate an Etruscan origin, and, according to Pliny, the ancient inhabitants of Bixen came from Etruria...'