Close
Cart (0)
Login
Register
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
Go to Login page
Hide details
Conceptually similar
ART49684
ART36892
ART62227
ART136519
AR6126964
ART136530
ART136524
ART10692
ART62787
ART136512
ART136529
ART136517
AR6137029
ART62238
ART49679
ART136518
ART29501
ART598501
ART62226
ART598500
Military horse trapping inscribed with the name of Pliny the Elder. Roman, around 50 CE. From Xanten (Castra Vetera), Germany. This decorative horse trapping would have been issued to cavalrymen serving under Pliny the Elder (23/4-79 CE), the celebrated author of the Historia Naturalis ('Natural History'), in the Rhineland army. His name is punched into the trapping, over the bust of the emperor. The inscription reads: PLINIO PRAEF(ECTO) EQ(UITUM) ('while Pliny was Prefect of the cavalry'). Silvered bronze, diam. 10.5 cm. Inv. GR 1854,0717.53.
Location
British Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART345722
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
2380px × 2248px
Photo Credit
© The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY
Add to lightbox
Add to cart
Tags
1st century CE
Bronze
Equestrian
Harness
Horse
Imperial Roman (27 BCE-396 CE)
Metalwork
Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE)
Roundel
Shield
Silver