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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 4339535, member: 72790&quot;]This is from my curio cabinet. About half the items in it are original and genuine ancient artifacts and the other ones I picked up as souvenirs from Italy and Greece. Can you pick out the genuine ancient artifacts from the more recent copies? I&#039;ll reveal which is which below the image.[ATTACH=full]1099566[/ATTACH]At the top from left to right, original Roman redware perfume amphora, Copy of Greek Lekythos (for funeral offerings), two original baked clay oil lamps from Roman Egypt copy hard to see it) copy of Roman bronze lamp. Middle row, modern copy of olive oil cruet tableware (Byzantine coin in front), copy of Greek plate on which is an original Egyptian bead necklace and an original faience Egyptian ushabiti from a tomb, , original table jug reputed. to be from one of the Greek islands, Roman sestertius of Galba in front of it. Bottom row, all modern copies. The head is advertised as that of a &quot;youth&quot;, the calyx,(chalice) with Odysseus sailing past the sirens and what appears to be a generic Greek vase. I used to use these in my high school ancient history class to illustrate some of the ancient plastic arts techniques and believe it or not they all came back unbroken at the end of class. The originals survived earthquakes, plagues, barbarian pillaging, farmers plows, ship wrecks and American teen agers. Quite an accomplishment, all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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