Just going by your original link: It consisted of two to seven strings, richly decorated arms and a crescent-shaped sound box. It mostly probably...
Don't mind me, I'm just going to mumble to myself. I feel I have seen imagery very similar to that on Bowl 1 on a piece in the Greek & Roman wing...
This isn't an improvement, but picks up some different bits: [ATTACH]
[IMG] With 7 strings, that's a kithara. :)
She's very, very nice. Carved at the horn of the helmet shell from your description of the depth. Ariadne may be right. To be 100% confident...
Right. Right. No, but since I have live turtles, you can count on it that I have a herd of turtle items, including some brooches, although...
Your phorminx player meets the conventions for Sappho, here in a neoclassical (Gibson) version: [ATTACH] Euterpe's traditional instrument is...
Mr. Help II also said Willie Mays, but signature is Juan or Jean somebody.
It actually looks like Psyche working on a laptop, unless those bits that look like her characteristic squared off wings are really the end of her...
http://www.museicapitolini.org/en/percorsi/percorsi_per_sale/palazzo_nuovo/sala_del_gladiatore/statua_di_amore_e_psiche It's obviously inspired...
My preliminary assessment is that they ring false. Is the casting of the second one really so poor compared with the first? Or is it the photos?...
The thyrsi have pine cone heads.
I'm still thinking about this one. The birds I do not understand at all. The other figures are all playing musical instruments, stringed &...
I'm torn between: Dried fish Chili peppers Christmas ornaments
The green looks like grossular garnet. The blue teardrop shaped beads may be apatite.
Yes, Bacchus on one side & a female follower, a bacchante, on the other. Each is flanked by a type of staff associated with the wine god's rites...
I can't tell what she is perched on. Photo a bit blurry there, so actually looks more like a lotus blossom than a scallop shell to me, but can...
Think we have seen her recently in the cameo thread: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/cameos-show-tell-or-ask-answer.23493/page-163 [IMG]
How tall is the interior of the compartment itself?
He's loosely in the posture of someone drawing a bow, but I see no other indications he is intended to be Cupid. Is his head wreathed in...
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