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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2381393, member: 5833"]I don't do furniture, but the helmet on the guy on the back seems like a cross between the one often worn by Athena, with a face for the visor & the lion skin of Hercules, who never wears a helmet.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]262397[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]262398[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know if this marks him as anyone in particular or just fantasy Trojan War type. (And before you start calling him a Trojan warrior, bear in mind that the Greeks won that war & most heroes depicted are from that side.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 2381393, member: 5833"]I don't do furniture, but the helmet on the guy on the back seems like a cross between the one often worn by Athena, with a face for the visor & the lion skin of Hercules, who never wears a helmet. [ATTACH=full]262397[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]262398[/ATTACH] I don't know if this marks him as anyone in particular or just fantasy Trojan War type. (And before you start calling him a Trojan warrior, bear in mind that the Greeks won that war & most heroes depicted are from that side.)[/QUOTE]
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