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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8071254, member: 128351"]I understand your point but nothing tells me this intaglio was not made to deceive. Consider the other Momillus gem (obviously made by the same engraver) that was auctioned in 1888 : it did deceive. The expert, Henri Hoffmann, states it is authentic, because he knows very well many other experts will doubt its authenticity - Ernest Babelon wrote he doubted much. This is also why I doubt the authenticity of the seal of Alaric which is in Vienna: it looks too much like my gem and, even more, another seal of Alaric has just been published (Genevra Kornbluth, 'A Second Seal of Alaric, <i>Rex Gothorum</i>', in <i>Gemmae, an international journal on glyptic studies</i> I (2019), Pisa-Roma (Fabrizio Serra), p. 105-126). Kornbluth concludes that both are authentic ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8071254, member: 128351"]I understand your point but nothing tells me this intaglio was not made to deceive. Consider the other Momillus gem (obviously made by the same engraver) that was auctioned in 1888 : it did deceive. The expert, Henri Hoffmann, states it is authentic, because he knows very well many other experts will doubt its authenticity - Ernest Babelon wrote he doubted much. This is also why I doubt the authenticity of the seal of Alaric which is in Vienna: it looks too much like my gem and, even more, another seal of Alaric has just been published (Genevra Kornbluth, 'A Second Seal of Alaric, [I]Rex Gothorum[/I]', in [I]Gemmae, an international journal on glyptic studies[/I] I (2019), Pisa-Roma (Fabrizio Serra), p. 105-126). Kornbluth concludes that both are authentic ![/QUOTE]
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