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    awarded it as a kind of medal. Roman military units could also be awarded phalerae for distinguished conduct in action. These awards were often mounted on...
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    The Xanten Horse-Phalerae is the name of a set of Roman silvered bronze horse-trappings found in Xanten, Germany. The set is now in the British Museum's...
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    Xanten), Germany. Caelius is depicted wearing his military uniform, with phalerae (a type of military decoration), armillae (a type of bracelet), and a corona...
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    One of the Xanten Horse-Phalerae located in the British Museum, measuring 10.5 cm (4.1 in). It bears an inscription formed from punched dots: PLINIO PRAEF...
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    adopted an elaborate system of military awards that included medals called phalerae to be issued to soldiers and units for a variety of achievements. The practice...
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    Treister, "The Theme of Amazonomachy in Late Classical Toreutics: On the Phalerae from Bolshaya Bliznitsa," in Pontus and the Outside World: Studies in Black...
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    analogues which are not mirror armours, but have the same construction: Roman phalerae Byzantine klivanium (Κλιβάνιον) Japanese yukinoshita dō armour Mail and...
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    (2001) and Hachmann (1990) suggest, the Veneti also produced the silver phalerae, found on the Isle of Sark, as well as the Helden phalera, then there are...
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    Chi-Rho depicted on the cloth rather than above it, and in having their staves decorated with phalerae as were earlier Roman military unit standards....
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    Hadrian Vase Venus Uerdingen Hoard Vaison Diadumenos Warren Cup Xanten Horse-Phalerae Middle East Ain Sakhri figurine Assyrian lion weights Balawat Gates Blacas...
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    2009-09-16 at the Wayback Machine Order of Léopold Order of Leopold at phalerae.org Order of Leopold at Northeastmedals History of the Creation of the...
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    Nationaux Belges (MRA: 2007) Order of the Crown Order of the Crown at phalerae.org Order of the Crown at Northeastmedals Order of the Crown Medals at...
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  • military decorations presented: Torc – gold necklet Armillae – gold armbands Phalerae – gold, silver, or bronze sculpted disks worn on the breastplate during...
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    Hadrian Vase Venus Uerdingen Hoard Vaison Diadumenos Warren Cup Xanten Horse-Phalerae Middle East Ain Sakhri figurine Assyrian lion weights Balawat Gates Blacas...
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    Marne (France), fragments in Albstadt-Pfeffingen (Germany). Bronze dishes (phalerae) may have been sewn on a leather armour. Greaves of richly decorated sheet-bronze...
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    distinguished by transverse crests on their helmets, various chest ornaments (phaleræ) corresponding to modern medals, torques (a symbol borrowed from the Gauls...
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    physical strength or skill to raise the animal's head up. Ornaments such as phalerae and sallongs. Snaffle bridle: the "English-type" snaffle bridle is most...
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    horse harnesses were sometimes embellished with horse brasses known as phalerae, normally in bronze, cut or cast in the shape of a boss, disk, or crescent...
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    for valour to its legionaries. Hasta pura was a miniature gold spear; phalerae were large medal-like bronze or silver discs worn on the cuirass; armillae...
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  • attici a figure rosse del periodo arcaico (1988) "Felicior Augusto: Limes Phalerae and the Ravenna Relief" (1989) "Héraclès, Pisistratus and the Panathenaea"...
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    Roman kitchen Gravestone of equites "Reburrus" Colonia Ulpia Traiana Horse-Phalerae Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium Germania inferior Augusta Treverorum...
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    above the kalathos hat she wears; this fore-piece was accompanied with phalerae representing Medusa and seilēnoi heads, as well as fish-shaped side pieces...
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    to be no later than 300 AD; objects of Roman workmanship including two phaleræ, military decorations in the form of richly decorated gold discs 13.2 cm...
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    reported to have been awarded no less than eighteen hastae purae, twenty-five phalerae, 83 torques, more than 160 armillae, and twenty six coronae, of which fourteen...
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    [http Alexander the Great and Zeus Ammon: A New Interpretation of the Phalerae from Babyna Mogila]. Ancient West & East. Volume 4, Number 1. Anderson...
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    forelock, the cover on the horse's tail, the tasseled horse harness, or the phalerae. The style of the Saksanokhur belt buckle is also very similar to several...
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    Baron Evans of Watford Crest A demi-Roman centurion the corslet Argent phalerae and pteryges Or the cloak Gules fastened at the dexter shoulder with a...
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  • Hadrian Vase Venus Uerdingen Hoard Vaison Diadumenos Warren Cup Xanten Horse-Phalerae Middle East Ain Sakhri figurine Assyrian lion weights Balawat Gates Blacas...
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    (dona) for valour to its legionaries. Hasta pura was a miniature spear; phalerae were large medal-like bronze or silver discs worn on the cuirass; armillae...
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    clay pot, the thesaurus contained several solid gold axes, ornamental phalerae with spiral motifs, hair rings, one bracelet and one large gold piece....
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