Roman Soldier. Decorated.
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris (later the Musée de l'Homme)
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Modeled in plaster and costumed. Arrayed in dress of Roman Legionary with offensive and defensive weapons." Figure is no longer found in the collection, but some of the parts -- helmet, armor, shield, sheath -- remain.
label: Notes
content: Old photo file print of negative # 30307, which shows the mannequin fully dressed, has this identifying information on the back: "Roman legionary soldier. A replica of the Roman warrior in armor modeled for the Museum of Artillery in Paris, by the sculptor Bartholdi. Replica made by M. [Jules?] Hebert of Paris."
label: Notes
content: The objects currently under this catalogue number may be the same as, or related to, # E129780, Accession No. 19985, despite the mismatch of some of the Anthropology ledger book catalogue information? See U.S. National Museum Annual Report for 1888, p. 784: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31196930 . A donation is recorded for Accession No. 19985 (Catalogue No. 129780), listed as gift of the Trocadero Museum, Paris, France, through Dr. E. Hamy, director. The gift is recorded as a "full costume of a Roman soldier", and it is also noted: "A lay figure for this costume was prepared by M. [Jules?] Hebert, of the Trocadero Museum, by permission of the director. This was purchased by the U.S. National Museum." Though the Annual Report for 1888 lists the donor of 129780 as the Trocadero Museum, the Anthropology catalogue ledger book lists it as coming from John Durand of the Musee St. Germain, and lists the lay figure as modeled by H. Bernard and costumed by M. Gutperle. It also notes that the "Figure, sword, spear, shield &c are copies of those ordered by Napoleon when writing his life of Caesar". The card for 129780 has a note from Robert Elder that this object was transferred to Archaeology, but there is currently nothing recorded in the collections under that catalogue number.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jan 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 10
place: label: Place
content: Seine, Ville De Paris, France, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015758
label: USNM Number
content: A75532-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Helmet / Armor / Shield / Sheath