Jones, Henry Stuart [Hrsg.]; Palazzo dei Conservatori <Rom> [Hrsg.]: A catalogue of the ancient sculptures preserved in the municipal collections of Rome: the sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Text) (Oxford, 1926)

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doubtful whether its use can have been restricted to high officers. It may
be suggested that it is nothing but the ordinary cuirass of the cavairy,
and as such may be represented indiscriminately with the other common
type which appears on the Augustus from Prima Porta in the Vatican.
That this latter type would be inconvenient on horseback is obvious. Of
itself, then, the cuirass affords no indication of date. On stylistic grounds
the date of the group must fall between that of the pediment from
Talamone and the statues from Pompeii, i. e. r. 200 B. c. and r. A. D. 70-
More precise dating, on the evidence at present available, does not seem
possible.