I think you may be right, thanks for that observation! I had been seeing it as a human head, but lions in this kind of art do tend to have...
That'll learn you (& us). Thanks for explaining.
Thanks for all the tips & encouragement. Yes, I think to be sure I had a degree of accuracy, I would need to get a new batch of acids. I knew...
Must be like the German word for the bird. The image I posted is a good luck symbol of the 'Pennsylvania Dutch', who were really Deutsch, German,...
I bought one of those little starter kits for testing gold & silver, then have never had the nerve to try it. The bottles of acid have never been...
I'm not sure what's going on in this cameo, & fallen female figure may be more allegorical than historical, the personification of a country, but...
!!!!!!! How does that work? Since when does the winning bidder not have to abide by the terms of the auction? My opinion of auction houses,...
Distelfink? [IMG]
Mars/Ares.
General rule: Cupid does not wear shoes, especially not bump toe shoes. Before I moved on to the comments, my first thought too was that he...
That is what the CameoTimes web site is all about, helping people ID the subjects & learn a little of the stories. The article on Aurora shows...
Trade, which I have read was going on all up & down the Pacific coast, South America to North & back, as long as the coasts have been settled....
Or Frankenstein & Dracula? It gives me a Halloween feeling. Every day feels like Halloween these days.
I'm a Libra; I always have to get both sides in. I have only a few Zuni carvings in walrus tooth & a couple in tusk for direct experience, & many...
It will not be shell on the back with something else affixed to it. Not that it's impossible, it just isn't done. Very occasionally I run into a...
This bangle is from the same stylistic period. [ATTACH]
I'm always doing this, forgetting to put in the quotation I am replying to: 'I believe the symbol that you are not sure about is a plumb square'...
Yes, don't need exact date, just some anchor in time to help figure out when its original owner lived. I can't articulate this in any coherent...
Saw that; photo made it easy to spot. Also noticed that it says Yahweh in Hebrew above it.
I'm rather fond of Zenobia, particularly in light of the destruction of Palmyra. [ATTACH]
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