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Two Things
First off - for those who know about the wolf heads from the Getty, I got an email back with the following information:
Here is what they are: they've been published by Michael Pfrommer, a German scholar, in a Getty publication Metalwork in the Hellenized East.
He considers both of them to perhaps be belt buckles (and I do prefer to think of them this way), but we really don't know what they were used for. They may also have been appliques (attached to a piece of furniture, chariot, ceremonial garment, etc.).
They are both raised from a single sheet of gold (using the repousse technique, beaten into a mold from the back) and weigh approximately 30 grams. They are dated sometime from the 1st century B.C. to the 1st century A.D.
One of them (82.AM.105) was once thought perhaps to be a modern forgery, but in 1984 it was examined by two highly respected scholars who verified its authenticity.
And that is honestly all we know about them - but aren't they fabulous?
Also - we've got the Times review of Iron Man.
Here is what they are: they've been published by Michael Pfrommer, a German scholar, in a Getty publication Metalwork in the Hellenized East.
He considers both of them to perhaps be belt buckles (and I do prefer to think of them this way), but we really don't know what they were used for. They may also have been appliques (attached to a piece of furniture, chariot, ceremonial garment, etc.).
They are both raised from a single sheet of gold (using the repousse technique, beaten into a mold from the back) and weigh approximately 30 grams. They are dated sometime from the 1st century B.C. to the 1st century A.D.
One of them (82.AM.105) was once thought perhaps to be a modern forgery, but in 1984 it was examined by two highly respected scholars who verified its authenticity.
And that is honestly all we know about them - but aren't they fabulous?
Also - we've got the Times review of Iron Man.