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Intercisa style helmet on belt buckle 400 AD
#1
I thought that might be of interest...

a bronze belt buckle from a male grave in Landifay, Dep. Aisne (F). Dated 400 AD, in the Musee Municipal of Laon.
The buckle shows the busts of a woman and a soldier with lance and helmet looking like an Intercisa type.
Also in the grave were found a silver stabber and a triangular comb.
The soldier is supposed to be a Germanic warrior.

Lit: H. W. Böhme: Germanische Grabfunde des 4. bis 5. Jahrhunderts zwischen unterer Elbe und Loire. Münchener Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 19 (1974), p. 320.
V.I. Evison, La tombe de guerrier de Landifay in: Problemes de chronologie relative et absolute concernant les cimetieres merovingiens d'entre Loire et Rhin. 1978., 39ff.

about helmets


The helmet fragment is from the Zähringer Burgberg, one of if not THE mightiest Burgberg of the Alamanns, maybe associated with the Alaman king Gundomad mid 4th century. Its a cheek guard with a golden copper frame.
That pic is from the catalogue Die Alamannen, Stuttgart 1997, p. 107. Im sorry I dont have more information about it.
Jens Wucherpfennig
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#2
Quote:The buckle shows the busts of a woman and a soldier with lance and helmet looking like an Intercisa type.

Erm.. Larger picture, please? Where did you find it? In the Böhme and Evison articles?
Robert Vermaat
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#3
Hi Jens, thanks for the pictures!

From the exhibition catalogue Gallien in der Spätantike, von Kaiser Constantin zu Frankenkönig Childerich, catalogue, (Mainz 1980).

Landifay buckle, 9.5 cm wide.

For the german members: what is the best English word for astragaliert?
Robert Vermaat
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#4
Astragalized, of course. Smile
Christian K.

No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.

Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.
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#5
Robert,

look at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astragal
especially with the reference link
http://homepage.mac.com/galoot_9/astragal.html
But be careful: after reading it I was myself feeling a bit astragalized :wink:
Jens Wucherpfennig
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#6
Thanks for the reference. I moved the cheek plate discussion to a new thread.
Robert Vermaat
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THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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