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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 333418, member: 5833&quot;]The cameo I put on <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/anyone-recognize-the-mark-on-this-ring-arabic-but.24804/#post-333272" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/anyone-recognize-the-mark-on-this-ring-arabic-but.24804/#post-333272">evelyb30&#039;s thread</a> asking about the mark &amp; stone on a silver ring is Demeter huffing off in her serpent-drawn chariot after being surprised in the middle of the night by his mother Metanira while burning away Deiphon&#039;s (Demophon&#039;s) mortality, based on the <a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/4353D96B-E95A-4D55-8DD7-6A516C489805" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/4353D96B-E95A-4D55-8DD7-6A516C489805" rel="nofollow">Poniatowski gem</a>.&nbsp; Another of the gems shows <a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/06726D00-FBF5-47B8-AB90-DD90B75D1BBD" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/06726D00-FBF5-47B8-AB90-DD90B75D1BBD" rel="nofollow">Demeter sending Triptolemus out to teach agriculture to the world</a> in that same chariot.</p><p><br /></p><p>When her daughter Persephone is abducted by Hades &amp; vanishes from the face of the earth, the disconsolate Demeter takes up two torches &amp; sets off to look for her.&nbsp; This is where torches come into the tale, not from the Demophon incident, which occurs during her search.&nbsp; They become one of her attributes, a way of indicating she is not some anonymous veiled lady.&nbsp; In <a href="http://www.crystalinks.com/eleusinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.crystalinks.com/eleusinian.html" rel="nofollow">this relief</a> you can see the wings are attached to the serpents that propel the car.&nbsp; (Raphael gave Saturn the same kind of draft animals in his <a href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/days-of-the-week" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/days-of-the-week" rel="nofollow">Days of the Week</a> series.)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.crystalinks.com/triptolemus.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So is this the two of them in China?![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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