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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3437001, member: 5833"]It would be interesting to know if there was a social language of cameos. I'm not sure how much women chose the subjects as personal statements, what with all the cameos there are of Dionysus, some of them with a photo of a loved one or a woven hair memento on the back. A locket I have that has a cameo of Nero on the front has a photo of a baby inside. I do think cameos with an allegorical figure of Hope that include the North Star were meant to indicate the wearer had someone away at sea & was perhaps a way for an unescorted woman to signal that she was not fair game.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 3437001, member: 5833"]It would be interesting to know if there was a social language of cameos. I'm not sure how much women chose the subjects as personal statements, what with all the cameos there are of Dionysus, some of them with a photo of a loved one or a woven hair memento on the back. A locket I have that has a cameo of Nero on the front has a photo of a baby inside. I do think cameos with an allegorical figure of Hope that include the North Star were meant to indicate the wearer had someone away at sea & was perhaps a way for an unescorted woman to signal that she was not fair game.[/QUOTE]
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